VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-22041

CVSS score6.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.57%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-02-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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 the host.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references