Description
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 their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- Debian / debian_linux11.0 – 11.0
- Debian / debian_linux12.0 – 12.0
- Debian / debian_linux10.0 – 10.0
- fedoraproject / fedora37 – 37
- fedoraproject / fedora38 – 38
- fedoraproject / fedora39 – 39
- NetApp / ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
- VMware / open_vm_tools10.3.0 – 12.3.0
- VMware / Tools10.3.0 – 12.3.0
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html
- MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1
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