CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-31676
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
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.
Affected configurations
• vmware tools (>= 10.0.0 < 12.1.0)
• vmware tools (>= 10.0.0 < 10.3.25)
• vmware tools (>= 11.0.0 < 12.1.0)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• netapp ontap select deploy administration utility
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory