CVE-2021-22040

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller

published February 16, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00725 · 53.6th percentile
Published
2022-02-16T16:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 FEB 16:37Z
    VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller
    cvelistv5