CVE-2021-22045

HIGH

Vmware Cloud Foundation < 3.10.2.2 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-003/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 61.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
vmware/cloud_foundation 3.0 - 3.10.2.2
vmware/esxi 6.5 (49 CPE variants)
Published Jan 04, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026