VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation und VMware Fusion ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service auszulösen oder XSS durchzuführen.