CVE-2022-22948 — Vmware Cloud Foundation
CISA KEVAs of 2025-10-31, CVE-2022-22948 is a MEDIUM-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, CVSS v3.1 6.5, EPSS 26.0% (96.2th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-07-17), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-08-07. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2022-22948, most recently “UNC3886 Zero-Day Rootkit Campaign Targeting Singaporean Telecommunications — ORB Network C2, Fortinet/VMware Exploitation, Covert Infrastructure Persistence”.
Last updated: 2025-10-31
What is CVE-2022-22948?
The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to improper permission of files. A malicious actor with non-administrative access to the vCenter Server may exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information.
The record classifies CVE-2022-22948 under weakness class CWE-276. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality. 62 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1629 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 6.5 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 26.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.2% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2024-07-17, federal remediation deadline 2024-08-07
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2022-03-29, last modified 2025-10-31
Is CVE-2022-22948 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2022-22948 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-07-17, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-08-07 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 39 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Vmware: Cloud Foundation, Vcenter Server 6.5, Vcenter Server 6.7, Vcenter Server 7.0
Showing 4 of 62 recorded product entries.
How to fix CVE-2022-22948
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2022-22948. Vendor advisory: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0009.html. Because CVE-2022-22948 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-08-07. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2022-22948
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2022-22948, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- UNC3886 Zero-Day Rootkit Campaign Targeting Singaporean Telecommunications — ORB Network C2, Fortinet/VMware Exploitation, Covert Infrastructure Persistence — CRITICAL · 2026-03-13
Sources
Seeded from NVD and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.
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