vulnerability

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0023) (CVE-2022-22983)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2022
Added
Sep 15, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.2.4) contains an unprotected storage of credentials vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges to the victim machine may exploit this vulnerability leading to the disclosure of user passwords of the remote server connected through VMware Workstation.

Solution

vmware-workstation-upgrade-16_2_4
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