CVE-2023-20900

Name
CVE-2023-20900
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 .
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html
MISC http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1
MISC https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493
MISC https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/
MISC https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/
MISC https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/
MISC https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html
MISC https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/
MISC http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* tools >= 10.3.0 < 12.3.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
open-vm-tools 3.18-community 12.3.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
open-vm-tools 3.19-community 12.3.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed