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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.1 High

CVE-2023-20900

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  i

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

Description

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 .

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n/a VMware Tools

Default version status: unaffected

  • 12.x.xaffected
  • 11.x.xaffected
  • 10.3.xaffected

n/a VMware Tools

Default version status: unaffected

  • 10.3.xaffected

n/a VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)

Default version status: unaffected

  • 12.x.xaffected
  • 11.x.xaffected
  • 10.3.xaffected

References