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CVE-2023-20867

Severity
high · on CISA KEV actively exploited
Source
CISA-KEV · kev
Published
2023-06-23
Reference
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20867
⌖ exploited in the wild shame 50/100 exploited-in-wild

VMware Tools contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module. A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. An attacker must hav

Players implicated

VMware, Inc. · vendorTools · product

Description

VMware Tools contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module. A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. An attacker must have root access over ESXi to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected FedRAMP products 2 in the catalog

ProductProviderStatusMatch
VMware Government Services (VGS) VMware, Inc. Authorized vendor-exact · 0.90
Workspace ONE VMware, Inc. Authorized vendor-exact · 0.90