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High · 8.8 CVE-2022-31696 EUVD-2022-53116GHSA-52m4-99w3-wq27

VMware ESXi contains a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the way it handles a network socket. A malicious actor with local acc…

Published Dec 13, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— VMware ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U3si-20841705, 6.7 prior to ESXi670-202210101-SG, 6.5 prior to ESXi650-202210101-SG), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x) —

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