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VMware patches critical flaws in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation

Help Net Securityby @helpnetsecurity ()2 min read4 · 2 reads
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2024-22252
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller
6.74%
CVE-2024-22254
+2 related CVEs
VMware ESXi contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
8.2
group max
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From the original article

2 min read at helpnetsecurity.com

VMware has fixed four vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-22252, CVE-2024-22253, CVE-2024-22254, CVE-2024-22255) in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation, some of which could allow attackers to escape the sandbox and execute code on the host machine. VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor, VMware Workstation and Fusion are desktop hypervisors, and VMware Cloud Foundation is a hybrid cloud platform.

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