The ESXiArgs ransomware attack is targeting VMware ESXi servers globally

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A global ransomware attack, known as ESXiArgs, is affecting servers using VMware ESXi hypervisors version 6.x prior to 6.7 due to a vulnerability CVE-2021-21974 caused by a heap overflow issue in the Ope...

OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.

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