Security experts from ERNW have demonstrated the ability to break out of the virtualisation hypervisor of VMware ESXi 5.0 using crafted VMware images. If a provider offers customers the ability to run customer-supplied VMware images on its servers as part of an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering, a malicious user could access all data on the server, including other customers' user passwords and virtual machines.. The security experts were able to manipulate the virtual disk images in a way that caused host disks to be mounted in the guest system after launching the VM. Successful attacks have been mounted in this way against fully patched copies of ESXi 5.0, but the researchers point out that, as far as they are aware, this has so far only happened under laboratory conditions. [All of article] The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . Cybersecurity researchers exploited vulnerabilities in VMware images, putting underlying host disks at risk. This poses a serious threat for IaaS users to recognize.. VMware Security Risk,IaaS Vulnerability,Hypervisor Exposure,Virtualization Attack,ESXi Threat. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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