CVE-2021-22000: VMware Thinapp

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Thinapp version 5.x prior to 5.2.10 contain a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of DLLs. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges may exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges to administrator level on the Windows operating system having VMware ThinApp installed on it.

Affected products

• VMware Thinapp: from 5.2, before 5.2.10 (fixed in 5.2.10)

Published 2021-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.