Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- low
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- VMWARE
- Published
- 6/13/2023
- Last Modified
- 10/28/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
vmware : toolsdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedora
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