CVE-2022-31676

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    CVE-2022-31676

    Published: 23 Aug 2022Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27, https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    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
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