CVE-2021-22040: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges…

PriorityP430medium6.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.73%

50.0th percentile

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	cloud_foundation	>= 3.0 < 3.11	3.11
vmware	cloud_foundation	>= 4.0 < 4.4	4.4
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	fusion	>= 12.0.0 < 12.2.1	12.2.1
vmware	workstation_player	>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.1	16.2.1
vmware	workstation_pro	>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.1	16.2.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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