CVE-2021-22041

published 2022-02-16

CVE-2021-22041: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a double-fetch vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on…

Priority P4 29 medium 6.7 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR H UI N S U C H I H A H

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a double-fetch 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.

Affected

7 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	>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.1	16.2.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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