{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31681 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-31681 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-31681 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 7 Oct 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-2022-31681 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-31681 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 7 Oct 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-2022-31681 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Cloud Foundation. 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-2022-31681/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31681/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-31681","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31681/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-31681","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-5996-c7cm-2xrf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware ESXi hypervisor","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A privileged user within the VMX process can trigger a null-pointer dereference, causing a denial of service on the VMware ESXi host.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"cloud_foundation","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"esxi","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"VMware ESXi contains a null-pointer deference vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may create a denial of service condition on the host.","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":"Null dereference in VMware ESXi","id":"CVE-2022-31681","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:cloud_foundation","products":["vmware:cloud_foundation","vmware:esxi"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in VMware Aria Operations","id":"CVE-2022-31682"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Deserialization in VMware vCenter Server","id":"CVE-2022-31680"},"products":["VMware ESXi"],"published":"2022-10-07","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2024-38812","kev_date_added":"2024-11-20","published":"2024-09-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2024-37079","kev_date_added":"2026-01-23","published":"2024-06-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager Server-Side Template Injection","id":"CVE-2022-22954","kev_date_added":"2022-04-14","published":"2022-04-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server File Upload","id":"CVE-2021-22005","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-09-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2021-21985","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-05-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Server Side Request Forgery in vRealize Operations Manager API","id":"CVE-2021-21975","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-03-31"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-21972","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-02-24"}],"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":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-03","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A privileged user within the VMX process can trigger a null-pointer dereference, causing a denial of service on the VMware ESXi host.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31681/"}