3. VMware Tools workaround addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2020-3941)
The repair operation of VMware Tools for Windows has a race condition. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.8.
docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/11.0/rn/VMware-Tools-1105-Release-Notes.html
kb.vmware.com/s/article/76654
www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H%20Mitre%20CVE%20Dictionary%20Links:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3941