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
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tools | Vmware | 10.0.0 (including) | 12.1.0 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:11.0.5-3.el7_9.4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:10.3.10-3.el8_1.3 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:11.0.0-4.el8_2.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:11.2.0-2.el8_4.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | open-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el9_0.1 | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Open-vm-tools | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/233.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/58.html
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html