CVE-2022-22942 (GCVE-0-2022-22942)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-13 08:16
Modified
2024-08-03 03:28
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Privilege escalation
Summary
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Photon OS Version: 3.0, 4.0
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