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.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| n/a | VMware ESXi , Workstation, Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation | affected |
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| Source | ID | Title |
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 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. |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:24.011Z
Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-22040
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-02-16T17:15:10.413
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:29.040
Link: CVE-2021-22040
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