CVE-2021-22040

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 16, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 4, 2021

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	VMware ESXi (7.0 U3 before ESXi70U3c-19193900, 7.0 U2 before ESXi70U2e-19290878, 7.0 U1 before ESXi70U1e-19324898, ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and ESXi 6.5 ESXi650-202202401-SG), Workstation (16.x before 16.2.1), Fusion (12.x before 12.2.1) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.4 and 3.x before 3.11)Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0004.html

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