PT-2022-2235
CVE-2021-22041
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Published
2022-02-15
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Updated
2022-02-24
Description by
CVSS 2.0
9.0
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a double-fetch vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller of VMware's virtualization platform. This vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. The vulnerability is caused by synchronization errors when using a shared resource.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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