CVE-2023-34057

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Oct 27, 2023
Updated: Mar 6, 2025
Reserved: May 25, 2023

Description

VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user access to a guest virtual machine may elevate privileges within the virtual machine.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware Toolsn/a	12.x.xAffected 11.x.xAffected 10.3.xAffected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html

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