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Action requiredNot in CISA KEVMetasploit moduleCVE-2022-22957

Not confirmed exploited. 1 of 8 rule sources name it.

Edge rules
1/8
Our test
No exploit yet
CVSS
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EPSS
23.3% Top 2%
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Published
2022-04-13
VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22957 & CVE-2022-22958). A malicious actor with administrative access can trigger deserialization of… More

VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22957 & CVE-2022-22958). A malicious actor with administrative access can trigger deserialization of untrusted data through malicious JDBC URI which may result in remote code execution.

Action requiredLast checked 2026-11-03

The risk

A Metasploit module exists, so exploitation needs no custom work. EPSS ranks it in the top 2% of CVEs most likely to be exploited in the next 30 days. Exploitation in the wild is not established by CISA KEV.

Who is affected

Teams running VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation. (Access 21.08.0.1, 21.08.0.0, 20.10.0.1, 20.10.0.0. Identity Manager 3.3.6, 3.3.5, 3.3.4, 3.3.3. vRealize Automation 7.6.).

Next steps

  1. Apply the vendor's fix; the advisory lists the affected and fixed versions.
  2. Keep a WAF rule in place while you patch: F5 ships a rule you may need to switch on. A WAF rule reduces exposure; it does not replace the patch. Edge coverage
  3. Check which WAF sits in front of your site and whether it covers this CVE. Check your domain

Attack traffic on Cloudflare

Cloudflare Radar
  • Remote Code Execution1.8% of mitigated layer 7 attacks, 7 days2026-10-06: 5.7%2026-10-07: 3.8%2026-10-08: 10.6%2026-10-09: 6.9%2026-10-10: 11.8%2026-10-11: 4.7%2026-10-12: 2.4%2026-10-13: 1.9%2026-10-14: 1.3%2026-10-15: 1.5%2026-10-16: 1.6%2026-10-17: 1.3%2026-10-18: 2.2%2026-10-19: 1.3%2026-10-20: 2.6%2026-10-21: 2.3%2026-10-22: 5.5%2026-10-23: 1.6%2026-10-24: 1.1%2026-10-25: 3.2%2026-10-26: 3.2%2026-10-27: 3%2026-10-28: 2.8%2026-10-29: 2.2%2026-10-30: 1.8%2026-10-31: 1.6%2026-11-01: 1.3%2026-11-02: 1.3%2026-11-03: 1.4%
  • Command Injection5.5% of mitigated layer 7 attacks, 7 days2026-10-06: 10.1%2026-10-07: 10.1%2026-10-08: 15.8%2026-10-09: 14.2%2026-10-10: 28.8%2026-10-11: 12.2%2026-10-12: 6.8%2026-10-13: 5.7%2026-10-14: 5.8%2026-10-15: 5.4%2026-10-16: 5.1%2026-10-17: 5.7%2026-10-18: 5.5%2026-10-19: 5.1%2026-10-20: 11.3%2026-10-21: 8.5%2026-10-22: 12.8%2026-10-23: 4.4%2026-10-24: 5.2%2026-10-25: 9.2%2026-10-26: 8.5%2026-10-27: 7.2%2026-10-28: 7.6%2026-10-29: 4.6%2026-10-30: 7.5%2026-10-31: 5.7%2026-11-01: 4.6%2026-11-02: 4.4%2026-11-03: 4.6%
  • Rules for named CVEs5.9% of mitigated layer 7 attacks, 7 days2026-10-06: 0.6%2026-10-07: 1.8%2026-10-08: 3%2026-10-09: 6.3%2026-10-10: 1.9%2026-10-11: 0.8%2026-10-12: 0.6%2026-10-13: 0.6%2026-10-14: 4.2%2026-10-15: 2.3%2026-10-16: 1.3%2026-10-17: 1.6%2026-10-18: 1.1%2026-10-19: 3.2%2026-10-20: 4.7%2026-10-21: 5.7%2026-10-22: 5.5%2026-10-23: 9.8%2026-10-24: 7%2026-10-25: 5%2026-10-26: 7.3%2026-10-27: 8.1%2026-10-28: 10.1%2026-10-29: 0.9%2026-10-30: 4.1%2026-10-31: 7.5%2026-11-01: 8.7%2026-11-02: 2.4%2026-11-03: 9.1%

Radar groups Cloudflare's WAF managed rules by category; it does not publish counts per CVE. These shares show how much attack traffic targets this kind of flaw across Cloudflare's network (28-day trend). They are not compromised systems, and seeing few attempts on Cloudflare does not prove an absence elsewhere. Radar data as of 2026-11-03. Radar ↗

Check your exposure with an agent

Read-only

Copy this into an agent with access to your infrastructure. It asks for an evidence-based, read-only assessment: affected systems, exposure, compensating controls and what is still unknown. It does not scan or change anything by itself.

Prompt12 lines
Assess whether the infrastructure available to you is affected by CVE-2022-22957 (VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation.). Perform a read-only assessment within your authorized access. Do not send exploit traffic, scan third-party systems, change configuration or restart services.

1. Verify the CVE record at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22957 and the vendor advisory. Establish affected and fixed versions, including vendor backports. The record lists: VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation.: affected Access 21.08.0.1, 21.08.0.0, 20.10.0.1, 20.10.0.0. Identity Manager 3.3.6, 3.3.5, 3.3.4, 3.3.3. vRealize Automation 7.6.. Cite sources and retrieval dates; flag anything you cannot verify.
2. Inventory deployments of VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation.: asset, environment, owner where known, installed version or build, and how you confirmed it (package metadata, a version endpoint, image tags). An image tag alone does not prove the running version.
3. Identify which deployments are reachable from the internet or untrusted networks, and through which paths (direct origin, load balancer, CDN or WAF).
4. Assess compensating controls separately from patch status. Current edge WAF coverage for this CVE: F5: rule exists, check whether it is enabled. Live data: https://cve.vigilbase.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2022-22957. Check whether the rule is enabled and in block mode on each path, and whether any path bypasses the WAF. A WAF rule is not a patch.
5. Check logs on exposed instances for requests matching the public exploit, if your access allows.

Return a short summary and a table: asset | version/build | assessment (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | exposure | compensating control | evidence | next action. List what you could not assess and the access needed to resolve it. Do not infer absence of compromise from patch status or a lack of alerts.

Remediation guidance: Apply the vendor's fix; the advisory lists the affected and fixed versions. Keep a WAF rule in place while you patch: F5 ships a rule you may need to switch on. A WAF rule reduces exposure; it does not replace the patch.
More: https://cve.vigilbase.com/cve/CVE-2022-22957

Sources

Cited
CVE record

No CVSS score in the record.

CVE-2022-22957 ↗NVD ↗

Exploit evidence

Metasploit has a module.

Metasploit: VMware Workspace ONE Access VMSA-2022-0011 exploit chain ↗

CISA KEV

Not in the KEV catalog (catalog 2026.11.03, checked 2026-11-04). Absence from KEV is not evidence that it cannot be exploited.

CISA KEV catalog ↗

EPSS

23.3% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of CVEs (2026-11-02).

FIRST EPSS ↗

WAF vendor statements

F5 names it in a changelog. Quotes and dates below.

Vendor statements

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Public exploits

1 found
1 Metasploit0 Exploit-DB0 Scanner template0 GitHub PoCs

Links are to third-party code: never run it outside an isolated lab.

Timeline

  1. 2022-04-06
    Metasploit module published
    VMware Workspace ONE Access VMSA-2022-0011 exploit chain
  2. 2022-04-13
    CVE published
    CVE List
  3. 2023-01-17
    F5 ships a rule
    VMware Workspace ONE Access JDBC Remote Code Execution

Social

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Vendor statements

Quoted
CloudflareWAF Managed RulesBefore feed history

The CVE predates the oldest entry in this vendor's public feed, so a rule may exist that we cannot see.

AWSAWS WAF Managed RulesNo public claim

We found no public statement from this vendor naming this CVE. That is not proof of no protection: generic rules may still catch it. AWS often describes a vulnerability without naming its CVE (for example "Log4j"). We count only entries that name the CVE, so AWS coverage is understated.

Microsoft AzureFront Door and Application Gateway WAF (DRS)No public claim

We found no public statement from this vendor naming this CVE. That is not proof of no protection: generic rules may still catch it. The rule tables name CVEs but carry no dates, so Azure is left out of every time-to-rule figure.

Google CloudCloud Armor preconfigured WAF rulesBefore feed history

The CVE predates the oldest entry in this vendor's public feed, so a rule may exist that we cannot see.

FastlyNext-Gen WAF virtual patchesBefore feed history

The CVE predates the oldest entry in this vendor's public feed, so a rule may exist that we cannot see.

F5Attack signatures (Distributed Cloud WAF)5 quotesRule published

First rule 2023-01-17, 279 days after the CVE was published.

2023-01-17New rule200103292Source
Added: signature 200103292 "VMware Workspace ONE Access JDBC Remote Code Execution" (Command Execution, risk High), systems: Other Web Server. References: CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22959.
2023-01-17New rule200104819Source
Added: signature 200104819 "Java code injection - com.vmware.licensecheck.LicenseChecker (Parameter)" (Server Side Code Injection, risk High), systems: Java Servlets/JSP, Other Web Server. References: CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958.
2023-01-17New rule200104820Source
Added: signature 200104820 "Java code injection - com.vmware.licensecheck.LicenseChecker" (Server Side Code Injection, risk High), systems: Java Servlets/JSP, Other Web Server. References: CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958.
2023-01-17New rule200104821Source
Added: signature 200104821 "Java code injection - com.mysql.jdbc.interceptors.ServerStatusDiffInterceptor (Parameter)" (Server Side Code Injection, risk High), systems: Java Servlets/JSP, Other Web Server. References: CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22957.
2023-01-17New rule200104822Source
Added: signature 200104822 "Java code injection - com.mysql.jdbc.interceptors.ServerStatusDiffInterceptor" (Server Side Code Injection, risk High), systems: Java Servlets/JSP, Other Web Server. References: CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22957.
AkamaiApp & API Protector (Adaptive Security Engine)No public source

This vendor publishes no machine-readable rule changelog we can check.

OWASP CRSCore Rule Set (open source, used inside many WAFs)Before feed history

The CVE predates the oldest entry in this vendor's public feed, so a rule may exist that we cannot see.