CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-31696

8.8 HIGH Published 2022-12-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

VMware ESXi contains a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the way it handles a network socket. A malicious actor with local access to ESXi may exploit this issue to corrupt memory leading to an escape of the ESXi sandbox.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.3.11) • vmware cloud foundation 3.10 • vmware cloud foundation 3.11 • vmware cloud foundation 4.3.11 • vmware cloud foundation 4.4 • vmware cloud foundation 4.4.1 • vmware cloud foundation 4.4.1.1 • vmware cloud foundation 4.5 • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References