Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

An error related to handling multiple failed login attempts can be exploited to cause the hostd service to become unresponsive and subsequently cause a DoS condition for management functionality.

Impact

Denial of Service

Affected Vendors

VMWare

Affected Products

VMware ESXi versions 6.5 and 6.7

Remediation

Update to a fixed version if available.

Versions 6.5: Update to version ESXi650-201907201-UG.

Versions 6.7: No official solution is currently available.