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CVE-2024-22253

Use-after-free vulnerability PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the UHCI 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. 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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n/a / VMware ESXiaffected 8.0 before ESXi80U2sb-23305545; affected 8.0 before ESXi80U1d-23299997; affected 7.0 before ESXi70U3p-23307199
n/a / VMware Workstationaffected 17.x before 17.5.1
n/a / VMware Fusionaffected 13.x before 13.5.1
n/a / VMware Cloud Foundationaffected 5.x; affected 4.x

CWE

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