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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2024-0011) (CVE-2024-22273)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2024-0011) (CVE-2024-22273)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/14/2024
Created
06/14/2024
Added
06/14/2024
Modified
06/17/2024

Description

The storage controllers on VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion have out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with storage controllers enabled may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition or execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine in conjunction with other issues.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-17_5_2

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