CVE-2022-31676 Information

Description

VMware Tools (12.0.0 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.

Reference

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html