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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2022-02-16T16:37:53

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:24.011Z

Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-22040

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-16T17:15:10.413

Modified: 2022-02-24T19:43:47.457

Link: CVE-2021-22040

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