CVE-2023-20900
CVE-2023-20900: 1 tracked advisory record across VMware. Compare vendor sources.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.1
High [CVE-2023-20900] VMware Tools: malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html
CVE-2023-20900Source published Source updated
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias. AliasManager.html. Affected product named by the advisory: VMware Tools (open-vm-tools).
- Affected products in this advisory
- VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)
- Source-reported affected versions
- VMware Tools 12.x.x
- VMware Tools 11.x.x
- VMware Tools 10.3.x
- VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) 12.x.x
2 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
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