VMware Releases Security Update

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VMware Tools. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory...

Storefront: Issue with creating new deployment - "Unable to Create Deployment"

1. Unable to create StoreFront Deployment on a VM hosted on VMware with VMware tools installed Exception: New Server Deployment An error occurred running the command: 'Set-DSNewClusterEnvironment' An error occurred while adding the StoreFront configuration API. Exception of type...

The vulnerability of the vm3dmp driver for the VMware Tools utility on Windows operating systems allows a hacker to compromise the confidentiality and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the VMware Tools utility’s driver vm3dmp for Windows operating systems arises from reading beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality and accessibility of protected information...

The vulnerability of the software interface of VMware Fusion allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary JavaScript code or perform arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the VMware Fusion hypervisor’s software interface is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary JavaScript code or perform arbitrary commands using the VMware Tools utilities...

CVE-2019-5522

VMware Tools for Windows update addresses an out of bounds read vulnerability in vm3dmp driver which is installed with vmtools in Windows guest machines. This issue is present in versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access to a Windows guest with...

CVE-2019-5522

VMware Tools for Windows update addresses an out of bounds read vulnerability in vm3dmp driver which is installed with vmtools in Windows guest machines. This issue is present in versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access to a Windows guest with...

Out-of-bounds

VMware Tools for Windows update addresses an out of bounds read vulnerability in vm3dmp driver which is installed with vmtools in Windows guest machines. This issue is present in versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access to a Windows guest with...

CVE-2019-5522

CVE-2019-5522 concerns VMware Tools for Windows. The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds read in the vm3dmp driver installed with VMware Tools, affecting VMware Tools for Windows versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access in a Windows guest could le...

CVE-2019-5522

VMware Tools for Windows update addresses an out of bounds read vulnerability in vm3dmp driver which is installed with vmtools in Windows guest machines. This issue is present in versions 10.2.x and 10.3.x prior to 10.3.10. A local attacker with non-administrative access to a Windows guest with...

CVE-2019-5514

VMware VMware Fusion 11.x before 11.0.3 contains a security vulnerability due to certain unauthenticated APIs accessible through a web socket. An attacker may exploit this issue by tricking the host user to execute a JavaScript to perform unauthorized functions on the guest machine where VMware...

VMWare Fusion APIs available without auth via web socket (CVE-2019-5514)

VMware Fusion 11.x before 11.0.3 contains a security vulnerability due to certain unauthenticated APIs accessible through a web socket. An attacker may exploit this issue by tricking the host user to execute a JavaScript to perform unauthorized functions on the guest machine where VMware Tools is...

The use of DVRF learn firmware analysis series a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

With a variety of hardware devices vulnerabilities more and more people concern, as well as by a malicious attacker a large advantage. As a Security Researcher, Learning Analytics firmware vulnerability, a timely warning to patch vulnerabilities is becoming increasingly important. This series of...

How and when to upgrade VMWare tools

Issue The objective is to upgrade VMware Tools after an ESX host upgrade, make the change in the OS Layer and create a new View Agent app layer...

Could not invoke guest operation error in a job when using vSphere API for Guest OS connection

Challenge When Microsoft User Profile Disks for example, in a Windows RDS farm are used, Veeam Application Aware Image Processing through vSphere API may fail with the following error: Could not invokeguestoperation. Cause When processing Guest OS data through vSphere API, Veeam needs to deploy a...

VMware Tools Shared Folders Out-of-bounds read Vulnerability - Windows

VMware Tools is prone to an out of bounds read vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:vmware:tools";...

VMware Tools 10.x < 10.3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0017)

The version of VMware Tools installed on the remote Windows host is 10.x prior to 10.3.0. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. C Tenabl...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

VMware Tools Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

VMware Tools is a set of enhancements that come with VMware's VMWare virtual machines. It is a set of drivers provided by VMware to enhance the performance of virtual graphics cards and hard drives, as well as to synchronize the clocks of the virtual machines with those of the host computer. An...

Design/Logic Flaw

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools 10.x and prior before 10.3.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing mu...