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CVE-2022-22942high

CVE-2022-22942

36Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendcvss 7.8epss 2.6%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 13
metasploitJan 28
exploitation probability
2.6%top 16% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
n/a · Photon OS