VMware ESXi Heap-Ovflw in Sandbox Process Causes Partial Info Disclosure
CVE-2022-31699 Published on December 13, 2022
VMware ESXi contains a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious local actor with restricted privileges within a sandbox process may exploit this issue to achieve a partial information disclosure.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-31699 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2022-31699 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-31699
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Exploit Probability
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