High [CVE-2026-41857] BOSH: compromised or malicious BOSH Director can execute arbitrary shell commands on the operator's workstation when the…
This high-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-41857 affecting BOSH.
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Summary
A compromised or malicious BOSH Director can execute arbitrary shell commands on the operator's workstation when the operator runs bosh ssh (or bosh scp/bosh logs -f) with default flags. Affected versions: BOSH CLI versions prior to 7.10.5.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 7.10.5. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
NVD record · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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