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VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-31660

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VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-31660

Disclosed
08/02/2022
Created
08/29/2022

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(s)

  • Spencer McIntyre

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64

Development

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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