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Improper Privilege Management Affecting open-vm-tools package, versions <2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.3

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High
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NVD
7.8 high
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SUSE
7 high
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Red Hat
7 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-OPENVMTOOLS-2990951
  • published 24 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 23 Aug 2022
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Introduced: 23 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-31676 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How 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.