CVE-2024-22253: VMware Cloud Foundation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. 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 Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, up to and including 5.0
• VMware ESXi: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.0 only; version 8.0 only
• VMware Fusion: from 13.0.0, before 13.5.1 (fixed in 13.5.1)
• VMware Workstation: from 17.0.0, before 17.5.1 (fixed in 17.5.1)

Published 2024-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.