Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-22943

Medium

Published: 03 March 2022

Published
03 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0012 31.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-22943 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Vmware Tools. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 31.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y and 10.x.y prior to 12.0.0) contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may be able to execute code with…

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system privileges in the Windows guest OS due to an uncontrolled search path element.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

vmware
tools
10.0.0 — 12.0.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References