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CVE-2022-31676 — VMware Tools (12

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.

CVSS
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EPSS
0.07% (top 79.50%)
CWE
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Published
2022-08-23T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-03T07:26:00.916Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / VMware ToolsVMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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