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VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2023-34057: Local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools (macOS)

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Oct 26, 2023

Added

Jun 3, 2025

Modified

Apr 15, 2026

Description

VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.8.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/23678
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-38171
CVE-2023-34057
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-34057
CWE-269
EUVD-EUVD-2023-38171

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