CVE-2023-34057

HIGH

VMware Tools - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user access to a guest virtual machine may elevate privileges within the virtual machine.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 22.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Affected Products (1)

vmware/tools < 12.1.1

Timeline

Published Oct 27, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026