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CVE-2022-22942
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-416
Description
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356
- https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4
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