It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-423 advisory.

  - VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. 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-2023-34058)

  - open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious     actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to     simulate user inputs. (CVE-2023-34059)

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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Amazon Linux 2023 : open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-devel (ALAS2023-2023-423)

high Nessus Plugin ID 184413

Version 1.0