Improper Privilege Management Affecting open-vm-tools package, versions <2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-OPENVMTOOLS-2990951
- 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:20.04
open-vm-tools
to version 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.3 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:20.04
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:20.04
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.