csaf_redhat - rhsa-2023

rhsa-2023_3949

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat

Published

2023-06-29 15:18

Modified

2024-11-22 23:20

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

Notes

Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Details

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Security Fix(es): * open-vm-tools: authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module (CVE-2023-20867) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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cve-2023-20867

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-06-13 16:47

Modified

2024-08-02 09:21

Severity ?

3.9 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

VMware Tools Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013.html
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0001/
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00020.html
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/16/2
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/16/11

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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VMware

VMware Tools

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