Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 16, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-22040
CVE-2021-22040
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.
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Affected products
4- VMware/ESXi, Workstation, and Fusiondescription
Patches
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References
1- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0004.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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