CVE-2022-22960VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 35.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 15 Apr 2022
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions in support scripts. A malicious actor with local access can escalate privileges to 'root'.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability.
- Added
- 15 Apr 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 6 May 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 15 Apr 2022.
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 for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-22960 (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/local/vmware_workspace_one_access_cve_2022_22960Rank gooddisclosed 6 Apr 2022
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Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 35.5% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation
- affected Access 21.08.0.1, 21.08.0.0, 20.10.0.1, 20.10.0.0. Identity Manager 3.3.6, 3.3.5, 3.3.4, 3.3.3. vRealize Automation 7.6.
References
References5
- 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
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171935/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Access-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22960 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-28083 (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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