CVE-2021-22043

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

Description

VMware ESXi contains a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability that exists in the way temporary files are handled. A malicious actor with access to settingsd, may exploit this issue to escalate their privileges by writing arbitrary files.

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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