CVE-2024-22253
Published Mar 5, 2024
Last updated 3 months ago
Overview
- Description
- VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the UHCI 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.
- Source
- security@vmware.com
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 9.3
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 2.5
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
Weaknesses
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-416
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending