CVE-2022-22977

published 2022-05-24

CVE-2022-22977: VMware Tools for Windows(12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative local user…

high 7.1 CVSS 3.1

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

VMware Tools for Windows(12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative local user privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may exploit this issue leading to a denial-of-service condition or unintended information disclosure.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	tools	10.0.0 – 10.3.24	—
vmware	tools	11.0.0 – 11.3.5	—
vmware	tools	>= 12.0.0 < 12.0.5	12.0.5

CWE-611