CVE detail
CVE-2014-8371 — CVE-2014-8371
Published 2014-12-08 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor vmware · Product vcenter_server_appliance · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0059
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
45.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 before Update 2, 5.1 before Update 3, and 5.0 before Update 3c does not properly validate certificates when connecting to a CIM Server on an ESXi host, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof CIM servers via a crafted certificate.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References