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CVE-2024-22268 (GCVE-0-2024-22268)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-14 12:58 – Updated: 2025-03-27 15:00
VLAI
Summary
VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in the Shader functionality. A malicious actor with non-administrative access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled may be able to exploit this vulnerability to create a denial of service condition.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-16 17:13 UTC
CWE
  • Heap buffer-overflow vulnerability
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
N/A VMware Workstation Affected: 17.x , < 17.5.2 (custom)
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N/A VMware Fusion Affected: 13.x , < 13.5.2 (git)
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Date Public
2024-05-14 04:45
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