Improper Privilege Management Affecting open-vm-tools package, versions <2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENVMTOOLS-2990953
- published 24 Aug 2022
- disclosed 23 Aug 2022
Introduced: 23 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-31676 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
open-vm-tools
to version 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools
package and not the open-vm-tools
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:18.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-31676
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
- 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/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
- 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/