VMware ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability. A malicious administrator could exploit this issue to perform certain operations without them being logged.
CVE-2026-41709
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than the CVSS score beside it.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-10-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. A secondary CVSS source baseline 2.7 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 2.7 LOW under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2026-51107 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
The CVE record's CNA (VMware by Broadcom) lists VMware Cloud Foundation versions before 5.2.4; VMware ESX versions before ESXi-9.1.0.0-25370933, before ESXi-9.0.2.0100-25595025 and 8.0 up to but not including ESXi80U3j-25429389 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.
- CVSS v3
- 2.7
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 52EG Risk 52/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity27% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 2.7 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.7%
- EPSS %ILE
- 52nd
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 2.7 LOW.
- EG Severity
- 2.7 LOWCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA 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.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/38017 · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41709
Published
July 30, 2026
Last Modified
October 29, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-41709Support Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/38017Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-41709(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- GHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9pGitHub Security AdvisoriesLow
VMware ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability. A malicious administrator could...
- 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 25× in last 7d / 56× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 150 refreshes on record for this CVE.
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- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
- 2026-11-01 13:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 13:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
- 2026-10-31 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
- 2026-10-30 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-29 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-29 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 17:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
- 2026-10-29 04:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-29 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-28 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-28 20:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 20:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-28 19:34 UTCEG score recompute▲ 6.30
- 2026-10-28 19:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-28 19:34 UTCCISA KEV update
- 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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- 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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- 2026-10-18 03:41 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-12 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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- 2026-10-04 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-04 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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- 2026-10-01 03:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-01 03:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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- 2026-09-27 19:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
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- 2026-09-23 03:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
- 2026-09-19 23:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
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- 2026-09-12 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
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- 2026-09-09 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
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- 2026-09-05 18:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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- 2026-09-02 08:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-02 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
- 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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- 2026-08-29 22:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-29 22:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpqj-56x2-gp9p · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 2.7
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