CVE-2022-22973: VMware Cloud Foundation

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local access can escalate privileges to 'root'.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.0.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.2.1 only; …
• 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 Suite Lifecycle Manager: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.3 only; version 8.4 only; …
• 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 2022-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.