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CVE-2022-31676

Date: August 22, 2022

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (17)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31676
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-31676
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31676
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-31676

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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