CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-20900
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-294
Description
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Affected configurations
• vmware tools (>= 10.3.0 < 12.3.0)
• vmware tools (>= 10.3.0 < 10.3.26)
• vmware open vm tools (>= 10.3.0 < 12.3.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• fedoraproject fedora 39
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
• netapp ontap select deploy administration utility
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-294 Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/ Mailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/ Mailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html Patch, Vendor Advisory