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F5: CVE-2022-31676: K87046687: VMware Tools vulnerability CVE-2022-31676

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Dec 9, 2022

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2022-31676
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-31676
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K87046687
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-53104
CWE-269
EUVD-EUVD-2022-53104

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