CVE-2022-31678

Cloud Foundation vulnerability

CVSS

9.1

EPSS

8.0%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

VMware Cloud Foundation (NSX-V) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. On VCF 3.x instances with NSX-V deployed, this may allow a user to exploit this issue leading to a denial-of-service condition or unintended information disclosure.

Affected vendor

Vmware

Affected product

Cloud Foundation

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference

Published

2022-10-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-31678

Confirm whether Vmware Cloud Foundation is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-31678.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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