CVE-2023-20854

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Feb 3, 2023
Updated: Mar 26, 2025
Reserved: Nov 1, 2022

Description

VMware Workstation contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim's machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of the machine on which Workstation is installed.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware Workstationn/a	VMware Workstation (17.x prior to 17.0.1)Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0003.html

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