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Vulnerability · Published Feb 16, 2022 · Assigned by vmware

CVE-2021-22040

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 54% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation 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)

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