{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22977 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22977 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-22977 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows, published on 24 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-22977 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-22977 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows, published on 24 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22977 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: VMware Tools for Windows. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22977/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22977/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-22977","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22977/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-22977","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-325x-vgx6-jr39"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware Tools","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can exploit an XML External Entity vulnerability in VMware Tools to cause denial of service or disclose sensitive information.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xxe"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"tools","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-611","name":"Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference"}],"description":"VMware Tools for Windows(12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative local user privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, may exploit this issue leading to a denial-of-service condition or unintended information disclosure.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"XML external entity in VMware Tools for Windows","id":"CVE-2022-22977","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xxe","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Authorization bypass in Spring Security","id":"CVE-2022-22978"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Integer overflow in BCrypt class in Spring Security","id":"CVE-2022-22976"},"products":["VMware Tools for Windows"],"published":"2022-05-24","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Tools","id":"CVE-2023-34057","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-10-27"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7079","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-12-29"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7080","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-12-29"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in VMware Tools for Windows","id":"CVE-2019-5522","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-06-06"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Race condition in VMware Tools for Windows (VMware Tools)","id":"CVE-2020-3941","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-01-15"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Information disclosure in VMware Tools","id":"CVE-2018-6969","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-07-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-06-02","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A local attacker can exploit an XML External Entity vulnerability in VMware Tools to cause denial of service or disclose sensitive information.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22977/"}