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Vulnerability · CVE-2022-22956

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager Improper Authentication

Published Sep 3, 2025 · catalog updated Sep 3, 2025 · VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager

Patch now

CVE-2022-22956 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
49.53%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager

VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework. A malicious actor may bypass the authentication mechanism and execute any operation due to exposed endpoints in the authentication framework.

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  • vendor VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Managerversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2022-22956

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2022-22956 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 49.53%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Sep 3, 2025 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework. A malicious actor may bypass the authentication mechanism and execute any operation due to exposed endpoints in the authentication framework.

  2. Sep 3, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2022-22956

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2022-22956

    30-day exploitation probability 49.5%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-22956

    VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework. A malicious actor may bypass the authentication mechanism and execute any operation due to exposed endpoints in the authentication framework.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.