CVE-2021-22000 is a DLL hijacking vulnerability in VMware Thinapp versions prior to 5.2.10, allowing a non-administrative attacker to elevate privileges to administrator on Windows systems with ThinApp installed. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has received limited community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.2, < 5.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:thinapp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.