CVE-2024-22255: Information disclosure vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Affected products

VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 through 5.0
VMware ESXi: 7.0-update_1, 7.0-update_1a, 7.0-update_1b, 7.0-update_1c, 7.0-update_1d, 7.0-update_1e (+26); 7.0, 8.0
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
VMware Cloud Foundation: 5.x, 4.x
VMware ESXi: from 8.0 before ESXi80U2sb-23305545; from 8.0 before ESXi80U1d-23299997; from 7.0 before ESXi70U3p-23307199 — fixed in ESXi80U2sb-23305545, ESXi80U1d-23299997, ESXi70U3p-23307199
VMware Fusion: from 13.x before 13.5.1 — fixed in 13.5.1
VMware Workstation: from 17.x before 17.5.1 — fixed in 17.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Fusion 13.5.1; VMware Workstation 17.5.1; VMware ESXi ESXi80U2sb-23305545, ESXi80U1d-23299997, ESXi70U3p-23307199; VMware Fusion 13.5.1; VMware Workstation 17.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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