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#4 The Hacker News general August 12, 2026 at 09:01 UTC

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Threat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in Broadcom VMware vCenter Server, to execute arbitrary code and establish persistent remote access. The critical flaw was recently patched, but active exploitation means unpatched vCenter instances in network-accessible environments face immediate compromise risk.

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