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CVE-2022-31705

8.2 highEPSS 1.1%

High (8.2) in vmware. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.2 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-787
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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