CVE-2022-31676
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.07%open-vm-tools - security update
Published: 8/23/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u1
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u3
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |