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🛡️ CVE-2026-41709

🟢 CVSS 2.7 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-778 NVD
2.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

VMware ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability. A malicious administrator could exploit this issue to perform certain operations without them being logged.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-41709 is classified as CWE-778: Insufficient Logging. When a security-critical event occurs, the product either does not record the event or omits important details about the event when logging it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-41709 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

support.broadcom.com

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-778: Insufficient Logging) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-778
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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