VMware has released a critical security update for its ESXi, Fusion, Workstation products, and VMware Cloud Foundation versions to address the multiple vulnerabilities. Attackers could gain access to workloads inside virtual environments by exploiting the vulnerability.

These security flaws could result in a variety of negative effects, including command execution, escalate privilege, misuse the service settingsd as a high-privileged user and denial-of-service attacks.

Vulnerabilities can be linked for even worse outcomes and combining these vulnerabilities may result in increased severity.

Table 1: Vulnerability details 

                                                                                        Table 2: Vulnerable versions