CVE-2023-20900 (GCVE-0-2023-20900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-31 09:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:21
VLAI
Summary
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
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