Broadcom has alerted its corporate customers about critical vulnerabilities in VMware software, known as 'ESXicape', that are being actively exploited. These vulnerabilities allow attackers with certain privileges to escape their confined virtual environments and access broader underlying hypervisor systems. Such access could lead to the compromise of multiple virtual machines, including those belonging to other businesses in the same data center. The potential risk is significant, as one successful breach can affect numerous organizations sharing the same infrastructure. Security experts emphasize the urgent need for action against these vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities, dubbed 'ESXicape', affect VMware products and could let hackers escape their virtual machines and gain unauthorized access to hypervisors.
An attacker who compromises a hypervisor can then access any virtual machine sharing that hypervisor, which poses immense risk.
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