VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.2.4) contains an unprotected storage of credentials vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges to the victim machine may exploit this vulnerability leading to the disclosure of user passwords of the remote server connected through VMware Workstation.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-22983

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-32pr-8mxp-r53q

Published

August 11, 2022 12:00 AM

Last Modified

August 16, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 20, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.