CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-34058

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-10-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
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-347

Description

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. 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 open vm tools (>= 11.0.0 <= 12.3.0) • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0 • debian debian linux 12.0 • vmware tools (>= 10.3.0 < 12.3.5) • fedoraproject fedora 37 • fedoraproject fedora 38 • fedoraproject fedora 39

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References