{"id":"RLSA-2023:3949","summary":"Low: open-vm-tools security update","details":"The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* open-vm-tools: authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module (CVE-2023-20867)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.","modified":"2026-02-04T17:00:04.346837Z","published":"2023-07-08T02:53:49.713100Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-20867"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:3949"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213087"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/open-vm-tools?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:12.1.5-2.el8_8"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2023:3949.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}