CLEANSTART-2024-AH68885

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    CLEANSTART-2024-AH68885

    Published: 31 Oct 2026Last Modified: 31 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-20867

    Summary: 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

    Details: Security vulnerability affects the open-vm-tools package. 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.

    References: https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2024/CLEANSTART-2024-AH68885.json, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-20867, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20867

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:apk/cleanstart/open-vm-tools?arch=aarch64

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -12.2.5-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High