CVE-2022-22938 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-22938?

CVE-2022-22938 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 28 Jan 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.2.2) and Horizon Client for Windows (5.x prior to 5.5.3) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Cortado ThinPrint component. The issue exists in TrueType font parser. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine or remote desktop may exploit this issue to trigger a denial-of-service condition in the Thinprint service running on the host machine where VMware Workstation or Horizon Client for Windows is installed.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22938?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Vmware Horizon, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22938?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22938 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-22938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Workstation

• CVE-2022-22962 Path traversal in VMware Horizon Agent for Linux High 7.8
• CVE-2022-22964 Privilege escalation in VMware Horizon Agent for Linux High 7.8
• CVE-2020-3997 Cross-site scripting in VMware Horizon Server Medium 5.4
• CVE-2019-5513 Information disclosure in VMware Horizon Connection Server Medium 5.3

All Vmware Workstation vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-524v-q4cc-cvmx.