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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a VMware Tools
VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)affected
References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/ ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/ ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27 ↗