CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22042

7.8 HIGH 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])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-863

Description

VMware ESXi contains an unauthorized access vulnerability due to VMX having access to settingsd authorization tickets. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may be able to access settingsd service running as a high privileged user.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.4) • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References