CVE-2022-31676 (GCVE-0-2022-31676)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 07:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • Local privilege escalation vulnerability
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)
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