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Week in review: Fortinet patches critical FortiManager 0-day, VMware fixes vCenter Server RCE
2024-10-27 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Fortinet releases patches for publicly undisclosed critical FortiManager vulnerability In the last couple of days, Fortinet has released critical security updates for FortiManager, to fix a critical vulnerability that is reportedly being exploited by Chinese threat actors. VMware fixes critical vCenter Server RCE bug – again! (CVE-2024-38812) Broadcom has released new patches for previously fixed vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813) in vCenter … More → The post Week in review: Fortinet patches critical FortiManager 0-day, VMware fixes vCenter Server RCE appeared first on Help Net Security.


News URL

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/10/27/week-in-review-fortinet-patches-critical-fortimanager-0-day-vmware-fixes-vcenter-server-rce/

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2024-09-17 CVE-2024-38813 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in VMWare Vcenter Server 7.0/8.0
The vCenter Server contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted network packet.
network
low complexity
vmware CWE-273
critical
9.8
2024-09-17 CVE-2024-38812 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in VMWare Vcenter Server 7.0/8.0
The vCenter Server contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted network packet potentially leading to remote code execution.
network
low complexity
vmware CWE-787
critical
9.8

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Vmware 186 84 405 205 107 801
Fortinet 169 57 403 183 81 724