Overview
- Description
- A remote insecure deserialization vulnerability exixsts in VMWare Hyperic Agent 5.8.6. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables a malicious authenticated user to run arbitrary code or malware within a Hyperic Agent instance and its host operating system with the privileges of the Hyperic Agent process (often SYSTEM on Windows platforms). NOTE: prior exploitation of CVE-2022-38650 results in the disclosure of the authentication material required to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
- CNA Tags
- unsupported-when-assigned
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.9
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 3.1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-502
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:hyperic_agent:5.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D845755F-B9EF-4711-BBA9-E00BFE4659E3"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]