CVE-2021-22040: Use After Free

First published: Wed Feb 16 2022(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security@vmware.com

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