CVE-2022-31693 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-31693?

CVE-2022-31693 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Jun 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

VMware Tools for Windows (12.x.y prior to 12.1.5, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the VM3DMP driver. A malicious actor with local user privileges in the Windows guest OS, where VMware Tools is installed, can trigger a PANIC in the VM3DMP driver leading to a denial-of-service condition in the Windows guest OS.

Weakness: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-31693?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Tools.

How do I fix CVE-2022-31693?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-31693 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-2022-31693 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31693 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2023-34057 Privilege escalation in VMware Tools High 7.8
• CVE-2016-7079 Null dereference in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-7080 Null dereference in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2022-22977 XML external entity in VMware Tools for Windows High 7.1
• CVE-2019-5522 Information disclosure in VMware Tools for Windows High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7c26-765q-28xr.