Description
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.
Published: 2022-08-23
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3081-1 open-vm-tools security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5215-1 open-vm-tools security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-53104 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5578-1 Open VM Tools vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5578-2 Open VM Tools vulnerability
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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Linux Linux Kernel
Microsoft Windows
Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel E4s Rhel Eus
Vmware Tools
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

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

Reserved: 2022-05-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-31676

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Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:05:06.290

Link: CVE-2022-31676

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2022-31676 - Bugzilla

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