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Week in review: Attackers exploiting VMware RCE, Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-day
2022-04-17 08:00

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Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Microsoft 480 75 2308 5128 264 7775
Vmware 146 11 222 256 102 591