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CVE-2021-22045

7.8 highEPSS 4.7%

High (7.8) in vmware. EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi (7.0, 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202110101-SG), VMware Workstation (16.2.0) and VMware Fusion (12.2.0) contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in CD-ROM device emulation. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-787
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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