CVE-2026-22720 is a critical stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations, also affecting Cloud Foundation and Telco Cloud products. An authenticated attacker with custom benchmark creation privileges can inject scripts to perform administrative actions, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS score is 9.0 (Critical), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity but requiring user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among threat actors.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.0, < 8.18.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0, < 5.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.0, < 9.0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.2, <= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0, <= 5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.6 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.