{"id":229860,"date":"2026-01-27T02:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cisa-says-critical-vmware-rce-flaw-now-actively-exploited"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:20:28","slug":"cisa-says-critical-vmware-rce-flaw-now-actively-exploited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cisa-says-critical-vmware-rce-flaw-now-actively-exploited","title":{"rendered":"CISA says critical VMware RCE flaw now actively exploited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisa-says-critical-vmware-rce-flaw-now-actively-exploited.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has flagged a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability as actively exploited and ordered federal agencies to secure their servers within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Patched in June 2024, this security flaw (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2024-37079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2024\u201337079<\/a>) stems from a heap overflow weakness in the DCERPC protocol implementation of vCenter Server (a Broadcom VMware vSphere management platform that helps admins manage ESXi hosts and virtual machines).<\/p>\n<p>Threat actors with network access to vCenter Server may exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted network packet that can trigger remote code execution in low-complexity attacks that don\u2019t require privileges on the targeted systems or user interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has flagged a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability as actively exploited and ordered federal agencies to secure their servers within three weeks. Patched in June 2024, this security flaw (CVE-2024\u201337079) stems from a heap overflow weakness in the DCERPC protocol implementation of vCenter Server (a Broadcom VMware [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}