{"id":"CVE-2022-31676","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:32:12.290920314Z","published":"2022-08-23T20:15:08.903Z","related":["ALSA-2022:6357","ALSA-2022:6358","SUSE-SU-2022:2935-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2936-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2936-2","SUSE-SU-2022:2940-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2961-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2962-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2985-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2986-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12288-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5VV2R4LV4T3SNQJYRLFD4C75HBDVV76/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZA63DWRW7HROTVBNRIPBJQWBYIYAQMEW/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/23/3"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-31676.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"10.0.0"},{"fixed":"12.1.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"10.0.0"},{"fixed":"10.3.25"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"11.0.0"},{"fixed":"12.1.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"11.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"36"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"37"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}