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CVE-2023-20854

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

VMware Workstation contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim's machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of the machine on which Workstation is installed.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: 17.0
• VMware Workstation: from VMware Workstation (17.x prior through 17.0.1)

References

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0003.html
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0003.html

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