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CVE record · CVE-2024-22273

Out-of-bounds read in VMware ESXi and others

CVSS 8.1 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 21 May 2024, 17:29 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given VMware ESXi
  • affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U2sb-23305545 custom
  • affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3sq-23794019 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Workstation
  • affected 17.x to before 17.5.1 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Fusion
  • affected 13.x to before 13.5.1 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Cloud Foundation (ESXi)
  • affected 5.x to before 5.1.1 custom
  • affected 4.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-22273
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125 · CWE-787
Tags
Published
21 May 2024
Updated
26 Mar 2025

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 May 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.