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CVE-2024-22255
Information disclosure vulnerability
High7.1EPSS 2.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
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
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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