CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22043

7.5 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])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-367

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (< 4.4) • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References