CVE-2022-22942

high

Description

The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/27/4

https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-148

https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-356

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-12-13

Updated: 2023-12-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High