VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2022-31676
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-269
Primary references
- security@vmware.com — Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com
- security@vmware.com
- security@vmware.com
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108