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Affected Component
Analysis
openvmtools
Patched
Name
CVE-2022-31676
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.
CWEs
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
-
Advisories
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215Third Party Advisory
Analysis#
Vulnerability Rating#
7.8
CVSSv31
Others affected components#
Resolved with patches#
openvmtools (buildroot:2025.02.x)
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Properly check authorization on incoming guestOps requests
John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
CVE-2022-31676
openvmtools (buildroot:master)
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Properly check authorization on incoming guestOps requests
John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
CVE-2022-31676
open-vm-tools (yocto:kirkstone)
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Properly check authorization on incoming guestOps requests.
John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
CVE-2022-31676