VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2022-08-23T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T07:26:00.916Z

Reserved: 2022-05-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-31676

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-23T20:15:08.903

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:47:40.553

Link: CVE-2022-31676

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-08-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-31676 - Bugzilla