- 8.0HighCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
VMware Aria Operations contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges to create custom benchmarks may be able to inject script to perform administrative actions in VMware Aria Operations. To remediate CVE-2026-22720, apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' of VMSA-2026-0001 https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947https:// .
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 47 days later
· 47 days later
Published
- 48 days later
· 48 days 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Affected products
VMware · VMware Aria Operations
- affected 8.18.0 – < 8.18.6
- unaffected 8.18.6
VMware · VMware Cloud Foundation Operations
- affected 4.x – < 5.2.3
- affected 9.x.x – < 9.0.2
- unaffected 5.x – < 5.2.3
VMware · VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- affected 4.0 – < 5.2.3
- unaffected 5.2.3
VMware · VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
- affected 2.0 – < 5.2.3
- unaffected 5.2.3
What to do
Solution: Apply the vendor patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the Response Matrix of VMSA-2026-0001 https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947 . Fixed versions include VMware Aria Operations 8.18.6 (for 8.x) and VMware Cloud Foundation Operations 9.0.2.0 (for 9.x).
References
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-2026-8709 (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-2026-22720)Record last updated .