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Vulnerability CVE-2021-22040
Published: 2022-02-16
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-416 (Use After Free)
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
4.6/10 |
6.4/10 |
3.9/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
Partial |
Partial |
References: |
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0004.html
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