VMware

VMware's virtualization stack spans the bare-metal ESXi hypervisor, the vCenter management plane that controls fleets of hosts, and the desktop products Workstation and Fusion. The offensive themes are consistent: guest-to-host escapes through shared device-emulation code, theft of virtual disks, and compromise of the management plane.

1 ನಿಮಿಷದ ಓದುಅಕ್ಟೋ 7,2026 ರಂದು ನವೀಕರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆflorianamette1 ಕೊಡುಗೆದಾರ
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VMware's products share a lineage and much of their code, so their attack surfaces rhyme. ESXi is the type-1 hypervisor running VMs on bare metal; vCenter is the management plane controlling many ESXi hosts; and Workstation and Fusion are the type-2 desktop hypervisors on Windows and macOS. The same device-emulation code (SVGA, USB, NICs, the GuestRPC and VMCI channels) appears across them, so a guest-to-host escape bug class in one often applies to the others. Alongside escapes, the recurring targets are virtual-disk theft and the management plane.

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# which VMware product and build is in front of you?
vmware -v 2>/dev/null                              # Workstation/Fusion/ESXi version
esxcli system version get 2>/dev/null              # ESXi
curl -sk https://<host>/sdk/vimServiceVersions.xml # vCenter/ESXi API

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