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GHSA-3HFR-246F-6FXV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-03-05 18:31 – Updated: 2024-11-04 21:30

Details

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2024-22255 (GCVE-0-2024-22255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-05 17:58 – Updated: 2025-08-26 20:15

Summary

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

n/a

VMware ESXi

Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2sb-23305545 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U1d-23299997 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3p-23307199 (custom)

n/a	VMware Workstation	Affected: 17.x , < 17.5.1 (custom)
n/a	VMware Fusion	Affected: 13.x , < 13.5.1 (custom)
n/a	VMware Cloud Foundation	Affected: 5.x Affected: 4.x

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-3HFR-246F-6FXV

CVE-2024-22255 (GCVE-0-2024-22255)

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