CVE-2021-22043 (GCVE-0-2021-22043)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-16 16:37
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
CWE
  • TOCTOU vulnerability
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 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 4.4
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