VMWare releases Fusion vulnerability with 8.8 rating

The company issued a patch for the high-severity bug that allows arbitrary code execution.

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The security advisory is for version 13.x until 13.6 on the popular virtualization software for macOS. The bug — CVE-2024-38811 — has a CVSSv3 base score of 8.8 and is caused by an insecure environment variable. Mykola Grymalyuk of RIPEDA Consulting reported the vulnerability and VMWare has issued a patched version of the software.

The vulnerability allows a user with standard privileges to execute code within the Fusion application.