CVE detail
CVE-2024-22255
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.
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Buzz score components · mention 17.9 · diversity 13.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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- 11th March – Threat Intelligence ReportCheck Point Research
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 11th March, please download our Threat_Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken offline two systems following a breach that occurred as a result of the recent vulnerabilities exploitation in Ivanti products. The affected systems potentially include the […]
vendorresearch.checkpoint.comMar 11, 2024, 12:14 PM - Week in review: Attackers use phishing emails to steal NTLM hashes, Patch Tuesday forecastHelp Net Security
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What organizations need to know about the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) In this Help Net Security interview, Kris Lovejoy, Global Security and Resilience Leader at Kyndryl, discusses the impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) on organizations across the EU, particularly in ICT risk management and cybersecurity. Leveraging AI and automation for enhanced cloud communication security In this … More →
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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