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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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