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VMware Player: Local Privilege escalation vulnerability in Cortado Thinprint (VMSA-2020-0004) (CVE-2020-3948)

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VMware Player: Local Privilege escalation vulnerability in Cortado Thinprint (VMSA-2020-0004) (CVE-2020-3948)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/25/2020
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/25/2020
Modified
03/27/2020

Description

Linux Guest VMs running on VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper file permissions in Cortado Thinprint. Local attackers with non-administrative access to a Linux guest VM with virtual printing enabled may exploit this issue to elevate their privileges to root on the same guest VM.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-15_5_2

References

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