Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
Broadcom patched a critical VMware ESXi VM escape flaw (CVE-2026-47876) that could let attackers run code on the host from a compromised virtual machine. Broadcom has released patches to address five vulnerabilities affecting VMware ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, including three rated critical. The most severe, tracked as CVE-2026-47876 (CVSSv3 base score of 9.3), is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2026
Broadcom patched a high-severity VMware Fusion flaw, CVE-2026-41702, that could let local attackers gain root privileges. Broadcom released a security update for VMware Fusion to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41702, that could allow local attackers to escalate privileges to root on affected systems. The flaw is a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability affecting operations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2025
Broadcom patched six VMware flaws, including CVE-2025-41244, which has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by UNC5174 Broadcom addressed six VMware vulnerabilities, including four high-severity issues. One of these flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score 7.8), allows local users to escalate to root via VMware Tools and Aria Operations. “VMware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2025
VMware patched flaws disclosed during the Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking contest, where researchers earned $340,000 for exploiting them. Broadcom four vulnerabilities in VMware products demonstrated at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025. White hat hackers earned over $340,000 for VMware exploits, including $150,000 awarded to STARLabs SG for using an integer overflow flaw to compromise VMware ESXi. Below […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2025
Broadcom has addressed three VMware zero-day vulnerabilities in ESX products that are actively exploited in the wild. Broadcom released security updates to address three VMware zero-day vulnerabilities in ESX products that are actively exploited in the wild. The flaws, respectively tracked as CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, and CVE-2025-22226, impact multiple VMware ESX products, including VMware ESXi, vSphere, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2025
VMware fixed a high-risk blind SQL injection vulnerability in Avi Load Balancer, allowing attackers to exploit databases via crafted queries. VMware warns of a high-risk blind SQL injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score of 8.6), in Avi Load Balancer, allowing attackers with network access to exploit databases via crafted queries. “VMware AVI Load Balancer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2024
Virtualization giant VMware addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Aria Operations product that can led to privilege escalation and XSS attacks. VMware released security updates to address five vulnerabilities in its Aria Operations product. Aria Operations (formerly known as VMware vRealize Operations) is a comprehensive cloud management and operations platform developed by VMware. It is designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2024
Threat actors are actively exploiting two VMware vCenter Server vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-38812 and CVE-2024-38813, Broadcom warns. Broadcom warns that the two VMware vCenter Server vulnerabilities CVE-2024-38812 and CVE-2024-38813 are actively exploited in the wild. “Updated advisory to note that VMware by Broadcom confirmed that exploitation has occurred in the wild for CVE-2024-38812 and CVE-2024-38813.” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2024
VMware addressed a remote code execution flaw, demonstrated in a Chinese hacking contest, for the second time in two months. VMware failed to fully address a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), in its vCenter Server platform. In September, Broadcom released security updates to the vulnerability CVE-2024-38812. vCenter Server is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2024
VMware released a patch to address a high-severity code execution flaw in its Fusion hypervisor, users are urged to apply it. VMware addressed a high-severity code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38811 (CVSS 8.8/10), in its Fusion hypervisor. The vulnerability is due to the usage of an insecure environment variable, a threat actor with standard user privileges can […]
