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Unscored CVE-2021-22040 EUVD-2021-9209GHSA-4pf4-vf9p-vxx6

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local admini…

Published Feb 16, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by vmware

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation VMware ESXi (7.0 U3 before ESXi70U3c-19193900, 7.0 U2 before ESXi70U2e-19290878, 7.0 U1 before ESXi70U1e-19324898, ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and ESXi 6.5 ESXi650-202202401-SG), Workstation (16.x before 16.2.1), Fusion (12.x before 12.2.1) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.4 and 3… —

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