CVE-2022-22956VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework. A…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 49.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework. A malicious actor may bypass the authentication mechanism and execute any operation due to exposed endpoints in the authentication framework.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- VMware Workspace ONE Access VMSA-2022-0011 exploit chain (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/vmware_workspace_one_access_vmsa_2022_0011_chainRank excellentdisclosed 6 Apr 2022
Nuclei templates1 template
- VMware Workspace ONE Access - Authentication Bypass (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-22956.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 49.5% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
VMware Workspace ONE Access
- affected Access 21.08.0.1, 21.08.0.0, 20.10.0.1, 20.10.0.0.
References
References3
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0011.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171918/Mware-Workspace-ONE-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171918/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-28079 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-22956)Record last updated .