DEBIAN-CVE-2022-31676

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2022-31676

    Published: 23 Aug 2022Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-31676

    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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31676

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:12.1.0-1

    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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