CVE-2022-31676
HIGHVMware Tools 10.0.0-12.0.0 - Local Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
21.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
vmware/tools
10.0.0 - 12.1.0
Published
Aug 23, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026