VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5215
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221017-0003/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-27
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00013.html