VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes
Broadcom patches three critical VMware flaws — including VM escape and auth bypass in vCenter/ESXi — giving attackers a path from guest to host in unpatched environments.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the host. [...]
Editorial Analysis
Hypervisor-layer vulnerabilities carry outsized blast radius; a single exploited ESXi host can expose every guest VM and the data they hold.
Apply Broadcom's patches on an emergency schedule, prioritising internet-facing vCenter instances and production ESXi hosts.
Three critical VMware vulnerabilities allow attackers to escape virtual machines and bypass authentication — emergency patching is required.
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