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VMware Tools vulnerability CVE-2022-31676

Description

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](<https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31676>)) Impact A local, non-administrative attacker can gain elevated privileges on the Guest OS system, which might affect the confidentiality and integrity of the system.


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
big-ip (all modules or all other modules) 17.0.0
big-iq centralized management 8.2.0

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