Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Affecting vmware/open-vm-tools package, versions [,12.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMWAREOPENVMTOOLS-2993556
  • published26 Aug 2022
  • disclosed23 Aug 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-31676  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-250  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vmware/open-vm-tools to version 12.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Execution with Unnecessary Privileges where a malicious user with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1