CVE-2022-31696 (GCVE-0-2022-31696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-13 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:51
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Summary
VMware ESXi contains a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the way it handles a network socket. A malicious actor with local access to ESXi may exploit this issue to corrupt memory leading to an escape of the ESXi sandbox.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Memory corruption vulnerability
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U3si-20841705, 6.7 prior to ESXi670-202210101-SG, 6.5 prior to ESXi650-202210101-SG), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x)
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