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ghsa-4pf4-vf9p-vxx6

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Published

2022-02-17 00:00

Modified

2022-02-25 00:01

Details

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.

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CVE-2021-22040 (GCVE-0-2021-22040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-02-16 16:37

Modified

2024-08-03 18:30

Severity ?

CWE

Use-after-free vulnerability

Summary

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.

References

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https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0004.html

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation	Version: 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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