CVE•Published 2022-10-28•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2022-31678
Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
EPSS percentile
94
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 6% of all CVEs
Description
VMware Cloud Foundation (NSX-V) contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability. On VCF 3.x instances with NSX-V deployed, this may allow a user to exploit this issue leading to a denial-of-service condition or unintended information disclosure.
Timeline
Published 2022-10-28
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2022-31678Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Vmware Cloud Foundation"All exposed Vmware Cloud Foundation instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Cloud Foundation"HTTP body or banner mentions "Cloud Foundation" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2022-31678Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2022-31678Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2022-31678Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2022-31678GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2022-31678" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2022-31678 on GitHub.