CVE detail
CVE-2024-22254
VMware ESXi contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an out-of-bounds write leading to an escape of the sandbox.
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Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 8.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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- Week in review: Attackers use phishing emails to steal NTLM hashes, Patch Tuesday forecastHelp Net Security
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newswww.helpnetsecurity.comMar 10, 2024, 9:00 AM VMware has released fixes for several flaws that together could allow attackers to execute malicious code on the host system from inside a virtual machine, bypassing the critical isolation layer. Some of the flaws are in the virtualized USB controllers, so they impact most VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and VMware Cloud […]
newswww.csoonline.comMar 7, 2024, 9:35 PMVMware 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. About the vulnerabilities VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor, VMware Workstation and Fusion are desktop hypervisors, and VMware Cloud Foundation is a hybrid cloud platform. CVE-2024-22252 and CVE-2024-22253 affect VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion and are critical use-after-free vulnerabilities in the XHCI … More →
newswww.helpnetsecurity.comMar 7, 2024, 1:04 PMVMware released urgent patches to address critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation products Virtualization giant VMware released urgent updates to fix critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products. The most severe vulnerabilities can be exploited by an attacker with local admin […]
newssecurityaffairs.comMar 5, 2024, 9:47 PM
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