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Home > Cybersecurity > VMware released patches for five high severity vulnerabilities

VMware released patches for five high severity vulnerabilities

The vulnerabilities found by the participants of the security event Tianfu Cup are fixed.


Rusen Gobel Rusen Gobel
February 16, 2022
2 min read
VMware released patches for five high severity vulnerabilities

VMware has released several patches for the vulnerabilities which were found during the Tianfu Cup security event. Tianfu Cup had taken place in China between 16th and 17th October 2021, the fixes and the details of the vulnerabilities are recently released via a security advisory by VMware. The company states that there is no indication regarding exploitation in the wild.

Five vulnerabilities, four above 8.0 severity score

VMware has published a detailed advisory including solutions and workarounds

According to the security advisory, there were five vulnerabilities found in the event affecting VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation Pro / Player, VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion, and VMware Cloud Foundation. While those vulnerabilities have been marked as high-severity, the combined severity of those flaws is critical, the advisory states. Here is the list of the CVEs:

  • CVE-2021-22040 (8.4): Use-after-free vulnerability in XHCI USB controller
  • CVE-2021-22041 (8.4): Double-fetch vulnerability in UHCI USB controller
  • CVE-2021-22042 (8.2): ESXi settingsd unauthorized access vulnerability
  • CVE-2021-22043 (8.2): ESXi settingsd TOCTOU vulnerability
  • CVE-2021-22050 (5.3): ESXi slow HTTP POST denial of service vulnerability

VMware urges its users to apply the patches related to their products and versions immediately. Those products, versions, and patches can be found in the official security advisory of VMware linked below:

Click here to see the full documentation of the flaws and download related patches

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Rusen Gobel is a news editor at Cloud7 News. With more than 10 years of experience, Rusen worked as a hardware and software news editor for technology sites such as Shiftdelete, Teknokolis, Hardware Plus, BT Haber. In addition, Rusen publishes consumer product reviews on his YouTube channel. While consumer electronics has been his main focus for years, now Rusen is more interested in WordPress and software development. He had contributed different web application projects in his professional career. Rusen had graduated from Istanbul University, department of Computer Engineering. Rusen has a very high passion for learning and writing for every kind of technology. That's why he has been working as a tech editor for more than ten years on several different technology magazines and online news portals.

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