CVE-2022-31676

NameCVE-2022-31676
DescriptionVMware 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3081-1, DSA-5215-1, ELA-682-1
Debian Bugs1018012

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
open-vm-tools (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:9.4.6-1770165-8+deb8u2fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u6fixed
buster2:10.3.10-1+deb10u2vulnerable
buster (security)2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2fixed
trixie2:12.3.5-4fixed
sid2:12.3.5-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
open-vm-toolssourcejessie(not affected)
open-vm-toolssourcestretch2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u3ELA-682-1
open-vm-toolssourcebuster2:10.3.10-1+deb10u3DLA-3081-1
open-vm-toolssourcebullseye2:11.2.5-2+deb11u1DSA-5215-1
open-vm-toolssource(unstable)2:12.1.0-11018012

Notes

Fixed by: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/70a74758bfe0042c27f15ce590fb21a2bc54d745 (stable-12.1.0)
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/CVE-2022-31676.patch/1205-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
[jessie] - open-vm-tools <not-affected> (Vulnerable code was introduced later)

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