Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-20896

Medium

Published: 22 June 2023

Published
22 June 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0039 60.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-20896 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Vmware Vcenter Server. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The VMware vCenter Server contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger an out-of-bounds read by sending a specially crafted packet leading to denial-of-service of…

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certain services (vmcad, vmdird, and vmafdd).

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
vcenter server
7.0, 8.0 · 4.0 — 7.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References