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CVE-2022-31676
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-23T20:15:08.903 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:46:02.370

Summary

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

vmware — tools

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References

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