One thing became evident this week: minor mistakes can quickly get out of control This article explores 2024 vmware vulnerabilities. . Once fundamental precautions were disregarded, time-saving and friction-reducing tools became easy entry points.

Attackers didn't require new strategies. They moved in without opposition, making use of what was already exposed. Scale increased the harm. Botnet payloads were sent via telnet or netcat when they could be accessed, piping shell scripts straight into the vulnerable device for local execution.

Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected of using a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit, which may have been developed more than a year before a set of three flaws it relied on were made public. China-Linked Hackers Likely Developed Exploit for Trio of VMware Flaws in 2024. Three VMware vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-22224 (CVSS score: 9.3), CVE-2025-22225 (CVSS score: 8.2), and CVE-2025-22226 (CVSS score: 7.1)—that Broadcom revealed as zero-days in March 2025 are thought to have been exploited by the attack.

If the problem is successfully exploited, a malicious actor with administrator privileges may be able to execute code as the Virtual Machine Executable (VMX) process or leak memory from the VMX process.

In order to avoid detection, the attackers loaded unsigned kernel modules, disabled VMware's own drivers, and made phone calls home. These are the most significant security vulnerabilities this week. Examine them, address the most important issues first, and remain safe.

This week's list includes — CVE-2026-21858, CVE-2026-21877, CVE-2025-68668 (n8n), CVE-2025-69258, CVE-2025-69259, CVE-2025-69260 (Trend Micro Apex Central), CVE-2026-20029 (Cisco Identity Services Engine), CVE-2025-66209, CVE-2025-66210, CVE-2025-66211, CVE-2025-66212, CVE-2025-66213, CVE-2025-64419, CVE-2025-64420, CVE-2025-64424, CVE-2025-59156, CVE-2025-59157, CVE-2025-59158 (Coolify), CVE-2025-59470 (Veeam Backup & Replication), CVE-2026-0625 (D-Link DSL gateway routers), CVE-2025-65606 (TOTOLINK EX200), CVE-2026-21440 (@adonisjs/bodyparser), CVE-2025-68428 (jsPDF), CVE-2025-69194 (GNU Wget2), CVE-2025-43530 (Apple macOS Tahoe), CVE-2025-54957 (Google Android), CVE-2025-14026 (Forcepoint One DLP Client), CVE-2025-66398 (Signal K Server), CVE-2026-21483 (listmonk), CVE-2025-34468 (libcoap), CVE-2026-0628 (Google Chrome), CVE-2025-67859 (Linux TLP), CVE-2025-9222, CVE-2025-13761, CVE-2025-13772 (GitLab CE/EE), CVE-2025-12543 (Undertow HTTP server core), CVE-2025-14598 (BeeS Examination Tool), CVE-2026-21876 (OWASP Core Rule Set), CVE-2026-22688 (Tencent WeKnora), CVE-2025-61686 (@react-router/node, @remix-run/node, and @remix-run/deno), and CVE-2025-54322 (Xspeeder SXZOS).

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