CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-22943

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2022-03-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-03-03
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])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

VMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y and 10.x.y prior to 12.0.0) contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may be able to execute code with system privileges in the Windows guest OS due to an uncontrolled search path element.

Affected configurations

• vmware tools (>= 10.0.0 < 12.0.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References