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 VMware 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 impatcs VMware 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

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, VMware)