{"id":103845,"date":"2025-03-04T21:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/threat-posed-by-new-vmware-hyperjacking-vulnerabilities-is-hard-to-overstate\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:33:36","slug":"threat-posed-by-new-vmware-hyperjacking-vulnerabilities-is-hard-to-overstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/threat-posed-by-new-vmware-hyperjacking-vulnerabilities-is-hard-to-overstate\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers\u2019 networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The class of attack made possible by exploiting the vulnerabilities is known under several names, including hyperjacking, hypervisor attack, or virtual machine escape. Virtual machines often run inside hosting environments to prevent one customer from being able to access or control the resources of other customers. By breaking out of one customer\u2019s isolated VM environment, a threat actor could take control of the hypervisor that apportions each VM. From there, the attacker could access the VMs of multiple customers, who often use these carefully controlled environments to host their internal networks.<\/p>\n<h2>All bets off<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf you can escape to the hypervisor you can access every system,\u201d security researcher Kevin Beaumont <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social\/114105817929595100\">said<\/a> on Mastodon. \u201cIf you can escape to the hypervisor, all bets are off as a boundary is broken.\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social\/114105875482821396\">added<\/a>: \u201cWith this vuln you\u2019d be able to use it to traverse VMware managed hosting providers, private clouds orgs have built on prem etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/vmware-patches-3-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-product-lines\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/vmware-patches-3-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-product-lines\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers\u2019 networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday. 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