High severity · published Aug 23, 2022
CVE-2022-31676
VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36; 37 · source: NVD
OS
Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
TO
Tools · Vmware
10.0.0 before 12.1.0; 10.0.0 before 10.3.25; 11.0.0 before 12.1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31676
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
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