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CVE-2024-22253

Use-after-free vulnerability

Critical9.3EPSS 0.65%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
vmware

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the UHCI 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By vmware

  2. · 57 days later

    Published

  3. · 5 months later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2024-22253, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
vmwareCNA (assigner)3.1Critical9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Medium6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.

Weakness

Affected products

  • VMware ESXi

    • affected 8.0 – < ESXi80U2sb-23305545
    • affected 8.0 – < ESXi80U1d-23299997
    • affected 7.0 – < ESXi70U3p-23307199

  • VMware Workstation

    • affected 17.x – < 17.5.1

  • VMware Fusion

    • affected 13.x – < 13.5.1

  • VMware Cloud Foundation

    • affected 5.x
    • affected 4.x

References (1)

Sources

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