How severe is CVE-2022-38652?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of CRITICAL with a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2022-38652?

This is classified as CWE-502, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2022-38652 - CRITICAL Severity | CVSS 9.9

Vulnerability Description

A remote insecure deserialization vulnerability exixsts in VMWare Hyperic Agent 5.8.6. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables a malicious authenticated user to run arbitrary code or malware within a Hyperic Agent instance and its host operating system with the privileges of the Hyperic Agent process (often SYSTEM on Windows platforms). NOTE: prior exploitation of CVE-2022-38650 results in the disclosure of the authentication material required to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

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