Alpine: multiple open-vm-tools packages: security update to 12.2.5-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401358

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A 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-2023-20900)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401358

Version: Revision 1.35

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-20900

Detections

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