CVE-2022-31676

Published: Aug 23, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	VMware Tools	affected `VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)`

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-5215

vendor-advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20220825 [SECURITY] [DLA 3081-1] open-vm-tools security update

mailing-list

FEDORA-2022-cd23eac6f4

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-1b8d3b2845

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacaf

vendor-advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/

GLSA-202210-27

vendor-advisory

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CVE-2022-31676

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