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Alpine: multiple open-vm-tools packages: security update to 12.1.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405903

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2022-31676)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-31676

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405903

Version: Revision 1.36

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31676