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CVE-2022-31676

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

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 products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
• VMware Tools: from 10.0.0 before 12.1.0; from 10.0.0 before 10.3.25; from 11.0.0 before 12.1.0 — fixed in 10.3.25, 12.1.0
• VMware Tools: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Tools 10.3.25, 12.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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