GHSA-WHRM-JV67-HW75

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-08-24 00:00 – Updated: 2022-08-29 20:06
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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.

Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-31676"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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    "nvd_published_at": "2022-08-23T20:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-whrm-jv67-hw75",
  "modified": "2022-08-29T20:06:48Z",
  "published": "2022-08-24T00:00:27Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76"
    },
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      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html"
    },
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