CVE-2022-22943

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-22943
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-03 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-03-17 19:03:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y and 10.x.y prior to 12.0.0) contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may be able to execute code with system privileges in the Windows guest OS due to an uncontrolled search path element.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Tools All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMSA-2022-0007 MISC www.vmware.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376442 VMware Tools Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0007)

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