CVE-2022-31676

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-31676
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:47:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility - All All All
Application Vmware Tools All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation (GLSA 202210-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
oss-security - [SECURITY ADVISORY] open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676) MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: open-vm-tools-12.0.5-3.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: open-vm-tools-12.0.5-3.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5215-1 open-vm-tools DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3081-1] open-vm-tools security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE-2022-31676 VMware Tools Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
VMSA-2022-0024 MISC www.vmware.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160075 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2022-6357)
  • 160079 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2022-6358)
  • 160080 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2022-6381)
  • 180961 Debian Security Update for open-vm-tools (DSA 5215-1)
  • 180964 Debian Security Update for open-vm-tools (DLA 3081-1)
  • 184492 Debian Security Update for open-vm-tools (CVE-2022-31676)
  • 198908 Ubuntu Security Notification for Open VM Tools Vulnerability (USN-5578-1)
  • 240650 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6358)
  • 240651 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6356)
  • 240652 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6355)
  • 240653 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6357)
  • 240654 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6381)
  • 257194 CentOS Security Update for open-vm-tools (CESA-2022:6381)
  • 283095 Fedora Security Update for open (FEDORA-2022-cd23eac6f4)
  • 283124 Fedora Security Update for open (FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacaf)
  • 355593 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for open-vm-tools : ALAS2-2023-2114
  • 376866 VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0024)
  • 377054 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALINUX2-SA-2022:0039)
  • 377104 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0159)
  • 502492 Alpine Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools
  • 502493 Alpine Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools
  • 502494 Alpine Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools
  • 6140210 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for open-vm-tools (GHSA-62q8-gpwh-r68x)
  • 710657 Gentoo Linux open-vm-tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GLSA 202210-27)
  • 752518 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2935-1)
  • 752519 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2936-1)
  • 752527 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2961-1)
  • 752531 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2985-1)
  • 752537 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2986-1)
  • 940656 AlmaLinux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALSA-2022:6357)
  • 940658 AlmaLinux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALSA-2022:6358)
  • 960382 Rocky Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (RLSA-2022:6357)
  • 960483 Rocky Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (RLSA-2022:6358)

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