CVE-2026-59309
VMware vCenter contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter may exploit this issue to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the system.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 7.94%
- CWE
- CWE-303
- Published
- 2026-07-30
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
Affected products
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware vSphere Foundation
- VMware vSphere Foundation
- VMware vCenter
- VMware vCenter
- VMware vCenter
Weakness type
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