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VMware on Monday said it found no evidence that threat actors are leveraging an unknown security flaw, i.e., a zero-day, in its software as part of an ongoing ransomware attack spree worldwide. "Most reports state that End of General Support (EoGS) and/or significantly out-of-date products are being targeted with known vulnerabilities which were previously addressed and disclosed in VMware

The fresh "ESXiArgs" malware is exploiting a 2-year-old RCE security vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-21974), resulting in thousands of unpatched servers falling prey to the campaign.

Look for recent trends in attacks, strategies, and vulnerabilities to continue gaining steam throughout 2023.

Despite growing awareness, organizations remain plagued with unpatched vulnerabilities and weaknesses in credential policies.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: VMware Tags: ESXi Tags: Nevada Tags: ransomware Tags: Linux Tags: CVE-2021-21974 Over the weekend, several CERTs warned about ongoing ransomware attacks against unpatched VMware ESXi virtual machines. (Read more...) The post Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems. "These attack campaigns appear to exploit CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since February 23, 2021," the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of France said in an advisory on Friday. VMware, in its own alert released at the time, described the issue as an

VMware Workstation contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim's machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of the machine on which Workstation is installed.

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Dell VxRail, versions prior to 7.0.410, contain a Container Escape Vulnerability. A local high-privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary OS commands on the container's underlying OS. Exploitation may lead to a system take over by an attacker.

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) contains a CSRF bypass vulnerability. A malicious user could execute actions on the vROps platform on behalf of the authenticated victim user.