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CVE-2026-41703

critical

Description

VMware ESX, Workstation, and Fusion contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Broadcom has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.6.

References

https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vm-escape-vulnerability-patched-in-vmware-esxi/

https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/three-critical-vmware-flaws-allow-auth.html

https://securityaffairs.com/196231/security/broadcom-patches-critical-vmware-esxi-vulnerability-enabling-host-code-execution.html

https://docs.cloud.google.com/support/bulletins/index#gcp-2026-050

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical