Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-31681

Medium

Published: 07 October 2022

Published
07 October 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-31681 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Vmware Esxi. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware ESXi contains a null-pointer deference vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may create a denial of service condition on the host.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud foundation
4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.1.1 · 4.2 — 4.3.1.1
vmware
esxi
7.0 · ≤ 7.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References