CVE-2022-31696

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Dec 13, 2022
Updated: Apr 22, 2025
Reserved: May 25, 2022

Description

VMware ESXi contains a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the way it handles a network socket. A malicious actor with local access to ESXi may exploit this issue to corrupt memory leading to an escape of the ESXi sandbox.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U3si-20841705, 6.7 prior to ESXi670-202210101-SG, 6.5 prior to ESXi650-202210101-SG), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x)Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0030.html

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