Description
OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.
Published: 2019-12-06
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 98.1% High
KEV: Yes
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2025-1 openslp-dfsg security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4919-1 OpenSLP vulnerability
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.87066}

epss

{'score': 0.85354}


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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2021-11-03'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:30:00 +0200

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Vmware Esxi Horizon Daas
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:56.590Z

Reserved: 2019-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-5544

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Updated: 2024-08-04T20:01:51.272Z

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-12-06T16:15:11.467

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:37:52.780

Link: CVE-2019-5544

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Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-5544 - Bugzilla

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