The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Aria Operations to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogciting active exploitation in the wild.
The high-severity vulnerabilityCVE-2026-22719 (CVSS score: 8.1)has been described as a case of command injection that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
"A malicious unauthenticated actor may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commandswhich may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress," the company said in an advisory released late last month.
The shortcoming was addressedalong withCVE-2026-22720a stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilityand CVE-2026-22721a privilege escalation vulnerability that could result in administrative access. It impacts the following products -
- VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.x.x.x - Fixed in 9.0.2.0
- VMware Aria Operations 8.x - Fixed in 8.18.6
Customers who cannot apply the patch immediately can download and run a shell script ("aria-ops-rce-workaround.sh") as root from each Aria Operations Virtual Appliance node.
There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wildwho is behind itand the scale of such efforts.
"Broadcom is aware of reports of potential exploitation of CVE-2026-22719 in the wildbut we cannot independently confirm their validity," the company noted in an update to its bulletin.
In light of active exploitationFederal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are required to apply the fixes by March 242026.
