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CVE-2024-22252criticalobserved exploitationCWE-416

Use-after-free vulnerability

50Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck.

ssvc Actcvss 9.3epss 3.5%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDMar 5
VulnCheck+190d
exploitation probability
3.5%top 11% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H