CVE-2023-20900

Description

A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3