CVE-2022-31676
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 23, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Reserved
- May 25, 2022
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
VMware Toolsn/a |
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References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
- [oss-security] 20220823 [SECURITY ADVISORY] open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676)mailing-list
- DSA-5215vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220825 [SECURITY] [DLA 3081-1] open-vm-tools security updatemailing-list
- FEDORA-2022-cd23eac6f4vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-1b8d3b2845vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacafvendor-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- GLSA-202210-27vendor-advisory
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