Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 3, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2022-22943
CVE-2022-22943
Description
VMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y and 10.x.y prior to 12.0.0) contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may be able to execute code with system privileges in the Windows guest OS due to an uncontrolled search path element.
AI Insight
LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.
Affected products
2- Range: < 12.0.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
1- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0007.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.