CVE-2022-31676

moderate-risk

Published 2022-08-23

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.

Do I need to act?

0.07% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Tools

Debian Linux

Fedora

Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility

Affected Vendors

Debian Vmware Fedoraproject Netapp

References (18)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215

Release Notes https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215

Release Notes https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 13/34 · Low