Security News > 2022 > April > Hackers exploit critical VMware CVE-2022-22954 bug, patch now

A proof-of-concept exploit has been released online for the VMware CVE-2022-22954 remote code execution vulnerability, already being used in active attacks that infect servers with coin miners.

The vulnerability is a critical remote code execution impacting VMware Workspace ONE Access and VMware Identity Manager, two widely used software products.

The software vendor released a security advisory for the vulnerability on April 6, 2022, warning about the possibility of a threat actor with network access triggering a server-side template injection that results in RCE. VMware has released security updates for the affected products and workaround instructions to help address the risk for deployments that admins can't immediately update.

At the same time, it underlined the importance of addressing the particular vulnerability: "This critical vulnerability should be patched or mitigated immediately per the instructions in VMSA-2021-0011. The ramifications of this vulnerability are serious."

While releasing public exploits raises the risks that threat actors will exploit them in attacks, they are also meant to help secure systems through testing and serve as validators of existing fixes/patches.

Today, threat actors are actively scanning for vulnerable hosts, with cybersecurity intelligence firm Bad Packets telling BleepingComputer that they are detecting attempts to exploit the vulnerability in the wild.

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