vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-31676: Security patch for open-vm-tools (ALAS-2023-2114)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Aug 23, 2022 | Jul 21, 2023 | Jan 28, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 23, 2022
Added
Jul 21, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025
Description
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.
Solution(s)
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktopamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-salt-minionamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-sdmpamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-test
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