USN-6257-1 open-vm-tools vulnerability

🗓️ 27 Jul 2023 03:34:56Reported by GoogleType

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Open VM Tools mismanages authentication; compromised ESXi host can block host guest authentication, risking guest confidentiality (CVE-2023-20867).

Reporter	Title	Published	Views	Family All 154
IBM Security Bulletins	Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Defender – Data Protect	30 Aug 202317:27	–	ibm
IBM Security Bulletins	Security Bulletin: IBM DataPower Gateway Virtual Edition vulnerable to security bypass due to open-vm-tools (CVE-2023-20867)	29 Jul 202421:28	–	ibm
IBM Security Bulletins	Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM includes components with known vulnerabilities	24 Oct 202319:01	–	ibm
IBM Security Bulletins	Security Bulletin: IBM DataPower Gateway Virtual Edition affected by bypass vulnerability in Open VM Tools	14 May 202415:03	–	ibm
ATTACKERKB	CVE-2023-20867	13 Jun 202300:00	–	attackerkb
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2023 : open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-devel (ALAS2023-2023-259)	20 Jul 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2 : open-vm-tools (ALAS-2023-2139)	20 Jul 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0076: open-vm-tools (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0076)	14 May 202500:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	CentOS 9 : open-vm-tools-12.2.0-3.el9	29 Feb 202400:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	CentOS 7 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:3944)	28 Jul 202300:00	–	nessus

Source	Link
ubuntu	www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6257-1
ubuntu	www.ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-20867

20 May 2026 16:03Current

7.1High risk

Vulners AI Score7.1

CVSS 3.13.9

EPSS0.0219

SSVC