Execution with Unnecessary Privileges The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-sdmp (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published1 Sept 2025
- disclosed23 Aug 2022
Introduced: 23 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-31676 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-sdmp package and not the open-vm-tools-sdmp package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6358
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
- 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/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html