VMware have released updated versions of their virtualization software to fix a security vulnerability. VMware Tools is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676). A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.
Affected versions:
-VMware Tools for Windows and Linux versions earlier than 12.1.0
More information with instructions for updating can be read from the correspondent VMware advisory.
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