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.

A remote unauthenticated insecure deserialization vulnerability exists in VMware Hyperic Server 5.8.6. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables a malicious party to run arbitrary code or malware within Hyperic Server and the host operating system with the privileges of the Hyperic server process. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.