VMware released vCenter Server patches for the following releases: On August, 14th 2018 VMware released some patches for vCenter Server and ESXi to mitigate L1TF vulnerability. Since the process to identify affected hosts may take some time, solutions like Runecast Analyzer can help to identify critical hosts in matter of seconds. VMware already released some patches to fix this problem as reported in the VMware Security Advisories VMSA-2018-0020. Similar to Spectre and Meltdown issues, L1TF vulnerability affects only Intel Core and Xeon processors where a malicious code running in these CPUs could read data it is not entitled to from another process. After the vulnerabilities Spectre and Meltdown, a recently identified speculative execution side-channel method called L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) has been shared from Intel.
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