CVE-2022-22973

When VMware announced patches for a critical vulnerability on May 18, users were warned that exploitation in the wild would likely start soon, and now a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit targeting the flaw has been made public.

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. Horizon3 security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit and technical analysis for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. The virtualization giant recently warned that a threat actor can exploit the CVE-2022-22972 flaw (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8) […]

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive over two new vulnerabilities in VMware products. According to the advisory, threat actors are likely to exploit CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 in several products including VMware Workspace ONE Access (Access), VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Cloud Foundation, and vRealize Suite […]

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned organizations about two actively exploited VMware product vulnerabilities, and the agency believes two other freshly patched flaws will also be exploited soon.

VMware has released patches for a privately reported critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-22972) in VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation, and VMware Cloud Foundation products, and is urging administrators to patch or mitigate immediately, because “the ramifications of this vulnerability are serious.” Simultaneously, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive for all federal civilian executive branch agencies, which are ordered to enumerate all instances of … More →

CISA orders federal agencies to fix VMware CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 vulnerabilities by May 23, 2022. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued the Emergency Directive 22-03 to order federal agencies to fix VMware CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 flaws or to remove the affected products from their networks by May 23, 2022. The list of impacted […]

VMware addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability “affecting local domain users” in multiple products. The virtualization giant warns that a threat actor can exploit the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-22972 (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8), to obtain admin privileges and urges customers to install patches immediately. “This critical vulnerability should be patched or mitigated immediately per the […]