Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2022-31676
CVE-2022-31676
Description
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.
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Affected products
42- Range: 12.0.0, 11.x.y, 10.x.y
- osv-coords40 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-toolspkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-desktoppkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-sdmppkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-testpkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 11.3.5-1.el8_6.1+ 39 more
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-1.el8_6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-1.el8_6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-1.el8_6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-1.el9_0.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.0.5-150000.3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.0.5-150000.3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-150300.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 10.2.0-9.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 10.3.10-3.34.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.0.5-150000.3.29.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150100.4.37.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.3.5-150200.5.16.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
- (no CPE)range: < 12.1.0-4.45.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
9- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/mitrevendor-advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27mitrevendor-advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215mitrevendor-advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3mitremailing-list
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.htmlmitremailing-list
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/mitre
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.htmlmitre
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