Vulnerabilities fixed in VMware Tools

VMware has fixed vulnerabilities in VMware Tools. A malicious person with access to a guest system in which VMWare Tools are installed can exploit the vulnerabilities to give themselves elevated privileges and thus potentially execute code with elevated privileges. VMware has released updates to...

VMware Tools Security Vulnerability

VMware Tools is an enhancement tool that comes with VMware's VMWare virtual machines, and is a driver provided by VMware to enhance the performance of virtual graphics cards and hard disks, as well as to synchronize the clocks of the virtual machine with the host computer. A security vulnerabilit...

CVE-2023-34057

VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user access to a guest virtual machine may elevate privileges within the virtual machine...

CVE-2023-34058

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate...

PT-2023-6487 · Vmware · Vmware Tools

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: VMware Tools affected versions not specified Description: A local privilege escalation issue exists in VMware Tools, allowing a malicious actor with local user access to a guest virtual machine to elevate privileges within the virtual machine...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34058

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate...

RLSA-2023:5313 Important: open-vm-tools security update

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. Security Fixes: open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass CVE-2023-20900 For...

open-vm-tools security update

An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of th...

RLSA-2023:5312 Important: open-vm-tools security update

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. Security Fixes: open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass CVE-2023-20900 For...

USN-6365-2: Open VM Tools vulnerability

USN-6365-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled SAML tokens. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass SA...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availab...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.fc37

The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines. This package contains only the core user-space programs and...

Important: open-vm-tools

Issue Overview: VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle MITM network positioning between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest Operations...

Fedora 37 : open-vm-tools (2023-9b1a1023ac)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9b1a1023ac advisory. Package new upstream version of open-vm-tools-12.3.0-22234872. Security fix for CVE-2023-20900, CVE-2023-20867 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

ALSA-2023:5313 Important: open-vm-tools security update

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. Security Fixes: open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass CVE-2023-20900 For...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availab...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Fedora 38 : open-vm-tools (2023-df375d0634)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-df375d0634 advisory. Package new upstream version of open-vm-tools-12.3.0-22234872. Security fix for CVE-2023-20900, CVE-2023-20867 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6365-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...