Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2022-31705

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). 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.

  • Published: Dec 14, 2022
  • Updated: Nov 16, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2022-31705
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / esxi 7.0-beta 7.0-beta.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1 7.0-update_1.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1a 7.0-update_1a.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1b 7.0-update_1b.x
vmware / esxi 7.0 7.0.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_2 7.0-update_2.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_2a 7.0-update_2a.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_2c 7.0-update_2c.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_2d 7.0-update_2d.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1d 7.0-update_1d.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1c 7.0-update_1c.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_3c 7.0-update_3c.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_3d 7.0-update_3d.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_3e 7.0-update_3e.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_2e 7.0-update_2e.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_1e 7.0-update_1e.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_3g 7.0-update_3g.x
vmware / esxi 7.0-update_3f 7.0-update_3f.x
vmware / workstation 16.0.0 16.2.5
vmware / esxi 8.0 8.0.x
vmware / fusion 12.0.0 12.2.5