CVE-2023-34057: VMware Tools

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

VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user access to a guest virtual machine may elevate privileges within the virtual machine.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: from 10.3.0, before 12.1.1 (fixed in 12.1.1)

Published 2023-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.