Local Priv Escalation in VMware Tools 10/11/12 Root Privilege
CVE-2022-31676 Published on August 23, 2022

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.

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.07%
Percentile
20.55%

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