CVE-2024-22255 (GCVE-0-2024-22255)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-05 17:58
Modified
2025-08-26 20:15
Summary
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.  
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware ESXi Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U2sb-23305545
Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U1d-23299997
Version: 7.0   < ESXi70U3p-23307199
   n/a VMware Workstation Version: 17.x   < 17.5.1
   n/a VMware Fusion Version: 13.x   < 13.5.1
   n/a VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 5.x
Version: 4.x
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