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Tracker / CVE-2023-20900

CVE-2023-20900

High 7.1

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 .

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
fedoraproject fedora
netapp ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
vmware open_vm_tools · 10.3.0 → 12.3.0
vmware tools · 10.3.0 → 10.3.26
vmware tools · 10.3.0 → 12.3.0

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

References