Security Advisory

CVE-2022-22943

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-03-03 21:59:08
Last updated 2024-08-03 03:28:42
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

Description

VMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y and 10.x.y prior to 12.0.0) contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may be able to execute code with system privileges in the Windows guest OS due to an uncontrolled search path element.