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CVE-2022-22960: VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissio

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 72/100)

  • CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Apr 15, 2022). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: May 6, 2022.
  • A ready-made attack module is public (Metasploit); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 35.5% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 98.4% of all records.
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

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'.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded
Published
Apr 13, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
35.5% · 98th percentile

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Action score

72

This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS
31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV
30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS
11 / 30 · 35.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Apr 15, 2022. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: May 6, 2022.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
vmwarecloud foundation
vmwareidentity manager
vmwarevrealize automation
vmwarevrealize suite lifecycle manager
vmwareworkspace one access
linuxlinux kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • vmware cloud foundation3.0 and later · before 5.0
  • vmware identity manager3.3.3
  • vmware identity manager3.3.4
  • vmware identity manager3.3.5
  • vmware identity manager3.3.6
  • vmware vrealize automation7.6
  • vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager8.0 and later · before 9.0
  • vmware workspace one access20.10.0.0
  • vmware workspace one access20.10.0.1
  • vmware workspace one access21.08.0.0
  • vmware workspace one access21.08.0.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (vmware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • n/a VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation

    • 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.affected

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-22958Apr 13, 2022 · VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22957 & CV
    29Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-22959Apr 13, 2022 · VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
    17Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-22961Apr 13, 2022 · VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to returning exces
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

  • Metasploit module ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Metasploit moduleexploit/linux/local/vmware_workspace_one_access_cve_2022_22960VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-22960exploit2022-04-06

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Metasploit-8 d
  2. Published
  3. CISA KEV+1 d
  4. TodayOct 29, 2026+1660 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-732 · Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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