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CVE-2021-22000

25
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.2, < 5.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:thinapp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/163521/VMware-ThinApp-DLL-Hijacking.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2021/Jul/35
ExploitMailing ListTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0015.html
PatchVendor Advisory