CVE-2023-20867

🗓️ 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00Reported by ubuntu.comType

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine

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

OS	OS Version	Architecture	Package	Package Version	Filename
Ubuntu	16.04	any	open-vm-tools	2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2	open-vm-tools_2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2_any.deb
Ubuntu	22.04	any	open-vm-tools	2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.2	open-vm-tools_2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.2_any.deb
Ubuntu	23.04	any	open-vm-tools	2:12.1.5-3ubuntu0.23.04.1	open-vm-tools_2:12.1.5-3ubuntu0.23.04.1_any.deb
Ubuntu	18.04	any	open-vm-tools	2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm1	open-vm-tools_2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm1_any.deb
Ubuntu	20.04	any	open-vm-tools	2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.5	open-vm-tools_2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.5_any.deb

Source	Link
vmware	www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013
ubuntu	www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6257-1
cve	www.cve.org/CVERecord
cisa	www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

26 Aug 2025 00:07Current

6.5Medium risk

Vulners AI Score6.5

CVSS 3.13.9

EPSS0.13638

SSVC