A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
History

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.7

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2023-08-31T09:45:43.130Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T09:21:33.112Z

Reserved: 2022-11-01T15:41:50.396Z

Link: CVE-2023-20900

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-31T10:15:08.247

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:41:47.130

Link: CVE-2023-20900

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-20900 - Bugzilla