VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2022-22977

high
Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2026-06-02
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CVSS v3
7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

VMware Tools for Windows(12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative local user privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may exploit this issue leading to a denial-of-service condition or unintended information disclosure.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
70%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwaretools{"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endIncluding":"10.3.24"}
vmware vmwaretools{"startIncluding":"11.0.0","endIncluding":"11.3.5"}
vmware vmwaretools{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.0.5"}12.0.5

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.