QID 376866

Date Published: 2022-08-29

QID 376866: VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (VMSA-2022-0024)

VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine running on VMware.

Affected Versions:
VMware Tools version from 10.x.y before 12.1.0 (Windows)
VMware Tools version from 11.x.y before 12.1.0 (Linux)
VMware Tools version from 10.x.y before 10.3.25 (Linux)

QID Detection Logic:(Authenticated)
It checks for vulnerable version of VMware tools.

A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.6 severity.

Solution

To remediate this issue update to VMware Tools version VMware Tools 12.1.0, VMware Tools 10.3.25
For more information please visit VMware advisory VMSA-2022-0024

Vendor References

VMSA-2022-0024 - www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

CVEs related to QID 376866

CVE-2022-31676 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
VMSA-2022-0024			www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

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