CVE-2021-22042

2022-02-1616:37:54

vmware

www.cve.org

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.7%

JSON

VMware ESXi contains an unauthorized access vulnerability due to VMX having access to settingsd authorization tickets. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may be able to access settingsd service running as a high privileged user.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "VMware ESXi(7.0 U3 before ESXi70U3c-19193900, 7.0 U2 before ESXi70U2e-19290878 and 7.0 U1 before ESXi70U1e-19324898) and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x before 4.4"
      }
    ]
  }
]