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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmpUpgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools | Oct 11, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools | Aug 22, 2024 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-salt-minionUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade open-vm-tools-develUpgrade open-vm-toolsUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmp | Jul 21, 2023 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-toolsUpgrade open-vm-tools-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-test-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade open-vm-tools-develUpgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-debugsourceUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmp | Oct 20, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools | Aug 26, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2023173 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version | Oct 23, 2025 | Jun 21, 2023 |
| F5 Big Ip | — | Update F5 BIG-IP to the latest version | Jun 17, 2026 | Dec 9, 2022 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-emulation/open-vm-tools. | Oct 31, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-toolsUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmpUpgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools-develUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktop | Sep 7, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools-debugsourceUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmpUpgrade open-vm-tools-test-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade open-vm-tools-develUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools | Oct 20, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools-sdmpUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade open-vm-toolsUpgrade open-vm-tools-test-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-debuginfoUpgrade open-vm-tools-testUpgrade open-vm-tools-debugsource | Mar 12, 2024 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools-desktopUpgrade libvmtools0Upgrade libvmtools-develUpgrade open-vm-tools-sdmpUpgrade open-vm-tools-salt-minionUpgrade open-vm-tools | Oct 26, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade open-vm-tools | Aug 25, 2022 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Vmware Vmware Tools | — | Update VMware Tools to the latest version | Jun 3, 2025 | Aug 21, 2022 |
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