DescriptionA flaw was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows a malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias.A flaw was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows a malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges in a target virtual machine to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias.
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.