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VMSA-2022-0004: Double-fetch vulnerability in UHCI USB controller (CVE-2021-22041)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2022
Added
Jul 25, 2022
Modified
Jun 24, 2026

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.

Solutions

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