CVE-2022-31676

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• Local privilege escalation vulnerability

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

References

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

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