VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-04-15
Federal due date
2022-05-06
Vendor
VMware
Product
Multiple Products
EPSS
98.8th percentile (score 0.725, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22960

CISA short description

VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions in support scripts.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.