CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-22040.md

### [CVE-2021-22040](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22040)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=VMware%20ESXi%20%2C%20Workstation%2C%20Fusion%20and%20VMware%20Cloud%20Foundation&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Use-after-free%20vulnerability&color=brighgreen)

### Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories