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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.7 Medium

CVE-2023-34046

VMware Fusion TOCTOU local privilege escalation vulnerability

Description

VMware Fusion(13.x prior to 13.5) contains a TOCTOU (Time-of-check Time-of-use) vulnerability that occurs during installation for the first time (the user needs to drag or copy the application to a folder from the '.dmg' volume) or when installing an upgrade. A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed or being installed for the first time.

Affected products

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

VMware Fusion

Default version status: unaffected

  • 13.x to < 13.5affected

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