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
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Local privilege escalation vulnerability
Assigner
vmware CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 253 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a VMware Tools Affected: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)
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