VMware Issues Security Patches for High-Severity Flaws Affecting Multiple Products

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VMware on Tuesday patched several high-severity vulnerabilities impacting ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, Cloud Foundation, and NSX Data Center for vSphere that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

As of writing, there's no evidence that any of the weaknesses are exploited in the wild. The list of six flaws is as follows –

  • CVE-2021-22040 (CVSS score: 8.4) - Use-after-free vulnerability in XHCI USB controller
  • CVE-2021-22041 (CVSS score: 8.4) - Double-fetch vulnerability in UHCI USB controller
  • CVE-2021-22042 (CVSS score: 8.2) - ESXi settingsd unauthorized access vulnerability
  • CVE-2021-22043 (CVSS score: 8.2) - ESXi settingsd TOCTOU vulnerability
  • CVE-2021-22050 (CVSS score: 5.3) - ESXi slow HTTP POST denial-of-service vulnerability
  • CVE-2022-22945 (CVSS score: 8.8) - CLI shell injection vulnerability in the NSX Edge appliance component
Successful exploitation of the flaws could allow a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. It could also allow the adversary with access to settingsd to escalate their privileges by writing arbitrary files.
 

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