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.

Related CPE's

a

vmware

tools

3

o

microsoft

windows

-

o

linux

linux_kernel

-

o

debian

debian_linux

2

o

fedoraproject

fedora

2

a

netapp

ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility

-

Vulnerable

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3

Mailing ListPatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

Third Party Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/

Third Party Advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215

Third Party Advisory

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

Release NotesVendor Advisory

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-269

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.8 · High

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2022-08-23T20:15:08.903

2 years ago

Last modified

2023-11-07T03:47:40.553

1 year ago