CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22045

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-01-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-01-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0, 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202110101-SG), VMware Workstation (16.2.0) and VMware Fusion (12.2.0) contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in CD-ROM device emulation. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 <= 3.10.2.2) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 <= 4.3.1) • vmware workstation (>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.0) • vmware fusion (>= 12.0.0 < 12.2.0) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References