CVE-2022-31676

Publication date 23 August 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
open-vm-tools	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

alexmurray

Patch in email with Message-ID <BYAPR05MB634348FE28845A7AF442BE28B9649@BYAPR05MB6343.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H