{"id":626,"date":"2022-04-08T06:13:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/?p=626"},"modified":"2022-04-08T06:13:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T10:13:30","slug":"vmware-warns-of-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/2022\/04\/08\/vmware-warns-of-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-products\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVMware warns of critical vulnerabilities in multiple products\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">VMware has issued a warning to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities for multiple products that hackers could use to launch remote code execution attacks.\u00a0 Out of 8 bugs, 5 were rated \u201ccritical\u201d for security flaws.\u00a0 Successful exploitation of these weaknesses could result in malicious increase in privileges to root user, have access to hostnames of target systems, and successfully allow full takeover.\u00a0 VMware offers other options for those who cannot patch their applications, but it is still highly recommended to utilize patches in order to remove vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/vmware-warns-of-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-products\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/vmware-warns-of-critical-vulnerabilities-in-multiple-products\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Christopher Clayton<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has issued a warning to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities for multiple products that hackers could use to launch remote code execution attacks.\u00a0 Out of 8 bugs, 5 were rated \u201ccritical\u201d for security flaws.\u00a0 Successful exploitation of these weaknesses could result in malicious increase in privileges to root user, have access to hostnames of target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-instructor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}