CVE-2022-22983: VMware Workstation

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.2.4) contains an unprotected storage of credentials vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges to the victim machine may exploit this vulnerability leading to the disclosure of user passwords of the remote server connected through VMware Workstation.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: from 16.0.0, before 16.2.4 (fixed in 16.2.4)

Published 2022-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.