BSI security advisories
Advisories the German BSI (CERT-Bund) published for this product. Whether your version is affected is stated in the advisory itself.
- VMware Fusion und Workstation: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Codeausführung
WID-SEC-W-2026-3169 · 8 Oct
- VMware Produkte: Mehrere Schwachstellen
WID-SEC-W-2026-2569 · 11 Aug
VMware Workstation Pro at a glance
VMware Workstation Pro is Broadcom's desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux. Administrators and developers run virtual machines straight on their workstation — for test installs, training labs, malware analysis, or keeping legacy systems alive when there is no room for them in the data centre. The formerly separate entry-level edition, Workstation Player, has been folded into this product.
Broadcom ships Workstation as major releases with maintenance builds in between; downloads and release notes live on the support portal and the Techdocs site and require an account. Because a hypervisor works close to the kernel, updates regularly include fixes to graphics, USB and networking components — the very areas that have produced guest-to-host escape vulnerabilities in the past.
Before updating, check the host operating system and its drivers: newer builds often require a more recent kernel or Windows build, and on Windows the hypervisor tends to clash with Hyper-V and memory integrity. Shut down running virtual machines cleanly and consolidate snapshots first, then refresh VMware Tools inside the guests afterwards.
Version history & changelog · as detected by patchletter
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