7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2022-22973

Published: 20/05/2022 Updated: 08/08/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local access can escalate privileges to 'root'.

Vulnerability Trend

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vmware identity_manager 3.3.3

vmware identity_manager 3.3.4

vmware identity_manager 3.3.5

vmware identity_manager 3.3.6

vmware workspace_one_access 20.10.0.0

vmware workspace_one_access 20.10.0.1

vmware workspace_one_access 21.08.0.0

vmware workspace_one_access 21.08.0.1

vmware cloud foundation 4.0

vmware cloud foundation 4.0.1

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.0

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.0.1

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.1

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.2

vmware cloud foundation 4.1

vmware cloud foundation 4.2.1

vmware cloud foundation 4.1.0.1

vmware cloud foundation 4.3.1

vmware cloud foundation 4.3

vmware cloud foundation 4.2

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.8

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.7

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.6

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.6.1

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.6.2

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.4.1

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.4

vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager 8.3

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Patch your VMware gear now – or yank it out, Uncle Sam tells federal agencies
The Register • Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor • 01 Jan 1970

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Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued two warnings in a single day to VMware users, as it believes the virtualization giant's products can be exploited by miscreants to gain control of systems. The agency rates this threat as sufficiently serious to demand US government agencies pull the plug on their VMware products if patches can’t be applied. Of the two warnings, one highlights a critical authentication bypass vulnerability – CVE-2022-22972, rated ...