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Insufficient Granularity of Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-test  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENVMTOOLSTEST-12414706
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed26 Oct 2023
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Introduced: 26 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-34058  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1220  (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-test package and not the open-vm-tools-test package as distributed by RHEL.

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. 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 .