Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-22045 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in VMWare products

Summary

VMware ESXi (7.0, 6.7 before ESXi670-202111101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202110101-SG), VMware Workstation (16.2.0) and VMware Fusion (12.2.0) contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in CD-ROM device emulation. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

References