CVE-2022-31705: VMware ESXi

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Affected products

• VMware ESXi: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• VMware Fusion: from 12.0.0, before 12.2.5 (fixed in 12.2.5)
• VMware Workstation: from 16.0.0, before 16.2.5 (fixed in 16.2.5)

Published 2022-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.