The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5493 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-20867)

  - 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 . (CVE-2023-20900)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Debian DSA-5493-1 : open-vm-tools - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 181211

Version 1.0