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VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-31660

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Disclosed
Aug 2, 2022
Created
Aug 29, 2022

Description

VMware Workspace ONE Access contains a vulnerability whereby the horizon user can escalate their privileges
to those of the root user by modifying a file and then restarting the vmware-certproxy service which
invokes it. The service control is permitted via the sudo configuration without a password.

Author

Spencer McIntyre

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/local/vmware_workspace_one_access_certproxy_lpe
    msf exploit(vmware_workspace_one_access_certproxy_lpe) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(vmware_workspace_one_access_certproxy_lpe) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(vmware_workspace_one_access_certproxy_lpe) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(vmware_workspace_one_access_certproxy_lpe) > exploit
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