CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-38652

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2022-11-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

A remote insecure deserialization vulnerability exixsts in VMWare Hyperic Agent 5.8.6. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables a malicious authenticated user to run arbitrary code or malware within a Hyperic Agent instance and its host operating system with the privileges of the Hyperic Agent process (often SYSTEM on Windows platforms). NOTE: prior exploitation of CVE-2022-38650 results in the disclosure of the authentication material required to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Affected configurations

• vmware hyperic agent 5.8.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References