vulnerability

VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2022-31676: VMware Tools update addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 21, 2022
Added
Jun 3, 2025
Modified
Jul 3, 2025

Description

VMware Tools 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

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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