VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI 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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendors | Products |
|---|---|
| Vmware |
|
Configuration 1 [-]
|
No data.
No data.
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
 EUVD |
EUVD-2021-9209 | VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI 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. |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
No history.
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:24.011Z
Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-22040
Vulnrichment
No data.
NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-02-16T17:15:10.413
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:29.040
Link: CVE-2021-22040
Redhat
No data.
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.