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Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2020
VMware addresses flaws exploited at recent Tianfu Cup

VMware has addressed two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were demonstrated at the Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. VMware has released patches for two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were disclosed during the 2020 Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. The Tianfu Cup is the most important hacking contest held in China, the total bonus of the contest […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2020
VMware finally fixed the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw in ESXi

VMware has released new patches for ESXi after learning that a fix released in October for the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw was incomplete. The virtualization giant VMware has released new fixes for ESXi after learning that a patch released in October for the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw was incomplete. The CVE-2020-3992 vulnerability is a use-after-free bug issue that affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2020
VMware fixes several flaws in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T

VMware patched several flaws in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T products, including a critical code execution vulnerability. VMware has fixed several vulnerabilities in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T products, including a critical flaw that allows arbitrary code execution. The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3992, is a use-after-free issue that affects the OpenSLP service […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2020
VMware addresses critical flaws in Workstation and Fusion

VMware addressed 10 vulnerabilities affecting its ESXi, Workstation and Fusion products, including critical and high-severity code issues on the hypervisor. VMware has addressed 10 vulnerabilities affecting ESXi, Workstation and Fusion products, including critical and high-severity issues that can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the hypervisor. The most serious issue is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2020
A high-severity flaw affects VMware Workstation, Fusion and vSphere products.

VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3960, that affects its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. The CVE-2020-3960 flaw was discovered by Cfir Cohen, a researcher from Google’s cloud security team. ESXi, Workstation and Fusion […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2020
Critical flaw in VMware Cloud Director allows hackers to take over company infrastructure

Researchers disclosed a flaw in VMware Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. Security researchers from hacking firm Citadelo disclosed details for a new critical vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. VMware Cloud Director is a cloud service-delivery platform […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020
VMware addresses Fusion flaw introduced in the attempt to fix CVE-2020-3950 issue

VMware has released an update to address a privilege escalation flaw in VMware for the macOS version of Fusion that was introduced by a previous patch. In March, VMware patched a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3950) in Fusion, Remote Console (VMRC) and Horizon Client for Mac. The CVE-2020-3950 is a privilege escalation vulnerability caused by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
VMware fixes CVE-2020-3956 Remote Code Execution issue in Cloud Director

VMware has addressed a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, that affects its Cloud Director product. VMware has patched a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, in its Cloud Director product. The vulnerability is a code injection issue that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to send malicious traffic to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2020
VMware is going to fix recent Salt issues in vROps

VMware is going to address vulnerabilities impacting the vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) product, including two recently disclosed Salt issues. Recently, researchers from F-Secure disclosed a number of vulnerabilities in the “Salt” framework, including two issues that have been exploited by attackers to take over Salt installations. The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, are a directory […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2020
Experts shed the light on the mysterious critical VMware vCenter Server issue

Security firm Guardicore released technical information on a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability recently disclosed by VMware. Earlier this month, VMware has addressed a critical information disclosure flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3952, that could be exploited by attackers to compromise vCenter Server or other services that use the Directory Service (vmdir) for authentication. The CVE-2020-3952 vulnerability […]