CVE-2026-59310
9.8, critical Known exploited Used in ransomwareBroadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 3% higher than 84.8% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 30 Jul 20262 months ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 18 Aug 2026 and links it to ransomware activity. US federal agencies had to remediate by 21 Aug 2026, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Description
VMware vCenter contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the Syslog server. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Details
- Vendor
- Broadcom
- Product
- Cloud Foundation
- Weakness
- CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 19 Aug 2026
- Assigner
- security@vmware.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 4
Advisories 3
- medium.com /@quirso_de/active-exploitation-of-cve-2026-59310-361-victim-ips-across-47-countries-9783187cc6ff (opens in a new tab)
- medium.com /@quirso_de/global-exploitation-of-cve-2026-59310-by-suspected-chinese-nexus-apt-related-cve-2026-59309-443a79e1466d (opens in a new tab)
- support.broadcom.com /web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/38017 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Broadcom CVEs
Every Broadcom CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2026-22719 Broadcom VMware Aria Operations Command Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 18% 8.1, high
- CVE-2025-41244 Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability KEV EPSS 8% 7.8, high
- CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.7% 6.7, medium
- CVE-2024-37079 Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 22% 9.8, critical
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.