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CVE-2022-22942

7.8 highEPSS 2.6%

High (7.8) in vmware photon os. EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-416
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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