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LIN1021-4203 : Security Advisory - open-vm-tools - CVE-2022-31676

Created: Aug 24, 2022    Updated: Dec 16, 2022
Resolved Date: Dec 16, 2022
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Fix Version: 10.21.20.15
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2022-31676 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676)

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