cve-2022-31676
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 07:26
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@vmware.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
security@vmware.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Version: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)
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