Background exploitation KEV catalog No authentication

CVE-2026-22719

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations Command Injection Vulnerability

CheckOps priority index

6.2/10 Patch within 7 days

Severity8.1

Probability1.8

Exploitation4/5

Severity = CVSS. Probability = EPSS (FIRST). Exploitation = public signals: KEV, EUVD, ransomware, EPSS above 10 %, no account required.

EPSS · today 18.3% higher than 97.2% of CVEs

CVSS 3.1 8.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:

Exploited for 245 days 03 Mar 2026

CISA due date 24 Mar 2026 for US federal agencies

Exploitation probability EPSS · FIRST

EPSS probability (%)Percentile among all CVEs

Exploitation signals 4 / 5

KEV catalog (CISA)03 Mar 2026
Exploited in EUVD (ENISA)03 Mar 2026
Used by ransomwareno
EPSS above 10 %18.3%
No account, over the networkyes

What to do

Fix

Apply the vendor’s fix as soon as it is available.

CISA guidance: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Meanwhile

Take the service off the internet or restrict access to it, watch the logs and look for signs of compromise.

Manufacturers (CRA)

Exploited vulnerability in your product: early warning to ENISA within 24 h, then notification within 72 h (Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act). The CRA explained

Description ENISA EUVD

VMware Aria Operations contains a command injection vulnerability. A malicious unauthenticated actor may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress. To remediate CVE-2026-22719, apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the ' Response Matrix https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947 ' in VMSA-2026-0001 Workarounds for CVE-2026-22719 are documented in the 'Workarounds' column of the ' Response Matrix https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947 ' in VMSA-2026-0001

Affected products

Telco Cloud InfrastructureTelco Cloud PlatformVMware Cloud Foundation OperationsVMware Aria Operations

Affected versions

2.0 <5.2.3
patch: 5.2.3
4.0 <5.2.3
8.18.x <8.18.6
patch: 9.0.2
9.0 <9.0.2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-77

Open source packages OSV

Affected libraries according to OSV, with fixed versions.

Timeline

25 Feb 2026
Published
03 Mar 2026
Exploitation reported (ENISA)
03 Mar 2026
Added to the KEV catalog
24 Mar 2026
CISA remediation due date
23 Oct 2026
EPSS peak: 18.3%

References

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