[SECURITY] [DLA 3646-1] open-vm-tools security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3646-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Bastien Roucariès November 05, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

Amazon Linux 2023 : open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-devel (ALAS2023-2023-423)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-423 advisory. 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-...

Amazon Linux 2 : open-vm-tools (ALAS-2023-2329)

The version of open-vm-tools installed on the remote host is prior to 12.3.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2329 advisory. VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest...

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.

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Important: open-vm-tools

Issue Overview: 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 ab...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6463-1)

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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5543-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

FreeBSD : open-vm-tools -- Multiple vulnerabilities (d2505ec7-78ea-11ee-9131-6f01853956d5)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the d2505ec7-78ea-11ee-9131-6f01853956d5 advisory. - VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that ha...

Debian DSA-5543-1 : open-vm-tools - security update

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5543 advisory. Two security issues have been discovered in the Open VMware Tools, which could result in privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution bullseye, these...

USN-6463-1: Open VM Tools vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled SAML tokens. A remote attacker Guest Operations privileges could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2023-34058 Matthias Gerstner discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled file descriptors when dropping privileges. A...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Open VM Tools vulnerabilities (USN-6463-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6463-1 advisory. It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled SAML tokens. A remote attacker Guest Operations privileges could...

CVE-2023-34059

A flaw was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows a malicious actor with non-root privileges to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor, allowing them to simulate user inputs...

CVE-2023-34058

A flaw was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows a malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:4228-1)

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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1)

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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:4229-1)

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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:4227-1)

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...

Privilege Escalation

open-vm-tools is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability is a file descriptor hijack within the vmware-user-suid-wrapper allowing a malicious attacker to simulate user inputs...

SAML Token Signature Bypass

open-vm-tools is vulnerable to SAML Token Signature Bypass. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file or visiting a malicious website. The file or website would contain a specially crafted SAML token that would exploit the flaw in VMware...

SUSE SLES15: libvmtools-devel / libvmtools0 / open-vm-tools / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1 advisory. - CVE-2023-34058: Fixed a SAML token signature bypass issue bsc1216432. - CVE-2023-34059: Fixed a privilege escalation issue throug...