Description

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. 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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-22252

CVSS Base Severity: CRITICAL

CVSS Base Score: 9.3

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

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a

Product: VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Cloud Foundation

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.32% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 54.29% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22252
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2024-0006.html

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