CVE-2022-22960: VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-04-15. EPSS: 35.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions in support scripts. A malicious actor with local access can escalate privileges to 'root'.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 3.0, before 5.0 (fixed in 5.0)
• VMware Identity Manager: version 3.3.3 only; version 3.3.4 only; version 3.3.5 only; version 3.3.6 only
• VMware vRealize Automation: version 7.6 only
• VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: from 8.0, before 9.0 (fixed in 9.0)
• VMware Workspace One Access: version 20.10.0.0 only; version 20.10.0.1 only; version 21.08.0.0 only; version 21.08.0.1 only

Published 2022-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.