Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-OPENVMTOOLSDEVEL-3198795
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed23 Aug 2022

Introduced: 23 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-31676  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Rocky-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Rocky-Linux:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-devel package and not the open-vm-tools-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.

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.