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CVE-2023-20854

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CVE-2023-20854

Published: Feb 3, 2023

Modified: Mar 26, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

VMware Workstation

affected
VMware Workstation (17.x prior to 17.0.1)

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