CVE detail

CVE-2023-20867 — VMware Tools Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Published 2023-06-23 · Modified 2023-06-23 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.1353

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

96.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2023-07-14

Description

VMware Tools contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module. A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. An attacker must have root access over ESXi to exploit this vulnerability.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.