CVE-2023-20900

Details

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 Packages

VMware Tools

Windows 10 (1507)Windows 10 (1607) / Server 2016Windows 10 (1809) / Server 2019Windows 10 (1903)Windows 10 (1909)

Affected versions:

10.3.011.0.012.0.0

References

WEB

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1

WEB

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1

WEB

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html