GLSA-202210-27 : open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 166714

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202210-27 (open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation)

 - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All open-vm-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-12.1.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866227

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166714

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202210-27.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/31/2022

Updated: 10/31/2022

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC: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: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:open-vm-tools, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31676