CVE-2022-31676: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 36 only; version 37 only
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified
• VMware Tools: from 10.0.0, before 12.1.0 (fixed in 12.1.0); from 10.0.0, before 10.3.25 (fixed in 10.3.25); from 11.0.0, before 12.1.0 (fixed in 12.1.0)

Published 2022-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.