CVE-2023-34045: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Fusion(13.x prior to 13.5) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that occurs during installation for the first time (the user needs to drag or copy the application to a folder from the '.dmg' volume) or when installing an upgrade. A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed or being installed for the first time.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: from 13.0.0, before 13.5 (fixed in 13.5)

Published 2023-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.