CVE-2022-31676
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2022-08-23 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
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.
See more information about CVE-2022-31676 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2022-6381 | 2022-09-07 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2022-6357 | 2022-09-06 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2022-6358 | 2022-09-07 |
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