# CVE-2022-31676: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-08-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a VMware Tools: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a VMware Tools, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

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