vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-31676): Open VM Tools vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2022-08-23
Added
2022-08-25
Modified
2025-01-28

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

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-open-vm-tools
Title
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