Coverage › CVE-2019-5544
CVE-2019-5544 Unmapped
VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- VMware — VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS
- Description (CISA)
- VMware ESXi and Horizon Desktop as a Service (DaaS) OpenSLP contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker with network access to port 427 to overwrite the heap of the OpenSLP service to perform remote code execution.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-787
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5544
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2019-5544. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-787) — here is why — and does not guess.
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