Broadcom Releases Critical Patches for VMware ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion Vulnerabilities

Broadcom released patches for five vulnerabilities affecting VMware ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, including three rated as critical. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47876 with a CVSSv3 base score of 9.3, is a VM escape vulnerability in VMware ESXi that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host system from a compromised virtual machine. No specific exploitation or public disclosure details were provided in the notice. The patches address the vulnerabilities across the affected VMware products, though no exact release date for the fixes was mentioned. The impact includes potential full host compromise via malicious virtual machines.