VMware Products: Multiple Vulnerabilities
A BSI Warn- und Informationsdienst (WID): Schwachstellen-Informationen (Bürger Cert) ·
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key insight
BSI warning of multiple critical vulnerabilities in VMware virtualization products with direct impact on hypervisor and vCenter infrastructure used by European organizations.
Description
The BSI Warning and Information Service reports multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, Workstation, and Fusion. The vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger denial-of-service conditions, disclose sensitive information, bypass security measures, and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerabilities affect core virtualization components that typically represent organization-wide critical infrastructure. The bulletin contains no specific CVE numbers or CVSS scores but indicates urgency that these are serious security flaws.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 45.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 45.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 0.50
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 41.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
- consensus penalty
- -3.00
Path: operational
Consensus check
The pipeline self-checks before delivery. These rules lowered the score:
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- Consensus penalty:
- −3.0
- Total penalty:
- −3.0