Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-22041

Medium

Published: 16 February 2022

Published
16 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.7th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-22041 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Vmware Esxi. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a double-fetch 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…

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the host.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud foundation
3.0 — 3.11 · 4.0 — 4.4
vmware
fusion
all versions · 12.0.0 — 12.2.1
vmware
workstation
16.0.0 — 16.2.1
vmware
esxi
6.5, 6.7, 7.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References