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Description

If a threat actor can access a hypervisor’s host infrastructure, such as through existing management interfaces, they could use that access to manipulate associated guest/virtualized systems. Since the hypervisor runs underneath the virtual machines, this threat will go undetected by the individual guest environments.

CWE

CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2023-20867 (GCVE-0-2023-20867)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-13 16:47 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05

Title

VMware Tools Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Summary

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine.

Severity

3.9 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-04 19:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

vmware mitre root Scorecard

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023072…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/16/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/1…
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	VMware Tools	Unaffected: 12.2.5

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