CVE-2021-22042

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

Description

VMware ESXi contains an unauthorized access vulnerability due to VMX having access to settingsd authorization tickets. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may be able to access settingsd service running as a high privileged user.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	VMware ESXi(7.0 U3 before ESXi70U3c-19193900, 7.0 U2 before ESXi70U2e-19290878 and 7.0 U1 before ESXi70U1e-19324898) and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x before 4.4Affected

References

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

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