CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-22942
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-12-13
- 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 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
Affected configurations
• vmware photon os 3.0
• vmware photon os 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356 Release Notes
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148 Release Notes
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356 Release Notes
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148 Release Notes
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory