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CVE-2022-31705

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Publication date:
14/12/2022
Last modified:
18/04/2025

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.20 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.20
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 16.0.0 (including) 16.2.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1e:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2e:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3c:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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