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CVE-2022-31676

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 23, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:46 AM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraONTAP Select Deploy administration utility· also runs on 2 platforms

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
10.011.0
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
3637
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility· NetApp
95%
All versions
Tools· VMware
95%
10.0.0 ≤ v < 10.3.2510.0.0 ≤ v < 12.1.011.0.0 ≤ v < 12.1.0VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y)
Affected range stops below 10.3.25, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 12.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
linux-linux-kernel (environment) · microsoft-windows (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

References (9)

Mailing ListPatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
Vendor AdvisoryThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
Vendor AdvisoryThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269

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