CVE-2022-31705: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). A malicious actor with local…

PriorityP342high8.2CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSCCHIHAH

EPSS

1.55%

72.2th percentile

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). 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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	fusion	>= 12.0.0 < 12.2.5	12.2.5
vmware	workstation	>= 16.0.0 < 16.2.5	16.2.5

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