VMware fixed a privilege escalation issue in VMware Tools

VMware this week released patches to address an important-severity vulnerability in the VMware Tools suite of utilities.

The virtualization giant VMware this week released patches to address an important-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, which impacts the VMware Tools suite of utilities.

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in company products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests operating systems.

An attacker with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can trigger the CVE-2022-31676 flaw to escalate privileges on a compromised system.

“VMware Tools was impacted by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.” reads the advisory “A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine,”

The flaw impacts Tools on both Windows and Linux platforms, fixed version released by the company are 12.1.0 and 10.3.25.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.