VMware ESX, Workstation, and Fusion contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A malicious actor with VM deployment privileges could trigger an out-of-bounds read, potentially leading to information disclosure or more likely a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition of the host process. On Workstation and Fusion, the impact of this vulnerability is restricted to information disclosure.
CVE-2026-41703
Score 7.6 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-30. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.6; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.6
- EG Score
- 7.6(high)
- EG Risk
- 34(Track)EG Risk 34/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity76% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 1%
- EPSS %ILE
- 43%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 30, 2026
Last Modified
July 30, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 30, 2026Support Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/38017Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-41703(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- GCP-2026-051Google Cloud Security BulletinsCritical
GCP-2026-051 — Published: 2026-07-31Description Description Severity Notes Per advisory VMSA-2026-0006, multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, and…
- GHSA-m337-3vqr-5pf8GitHub Security AdvisoriesHigh
VMware ESX, Workstation, and Fusion contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A malicious...
- GCP-2026-050Google Cloud Security BulletinsCritical
GCP-2026-050 — Published: 2026-07-29Description Description Severity Notes Per advisory VMSA-2026-0006, multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, and…
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 12× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-01 04:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-01 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-01 04:16 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-31 16:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-31 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-30 16:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-30 15:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 15:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-30 13:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 12:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 12:46 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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