Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-22000

HighPublic PoC

Published: 13 July 2021

Published
13 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-22000 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Vmware Thinapp. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware Thinapp version 5.x prior to 5.2.10 contain a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of DLLs. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges may exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to administrator level on the Windows operating system having…

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VMware ThinApp installed on it.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
thinapp
5.2 — 5.2.10

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References