CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22040

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2022-02-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-416

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.11) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.4) • vmware fusion (>= 12.0.0 < 12.2.1) • vmware workstation player (>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.1) • vmware workstation pro (>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.1) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References