PT-2023-9001

CVE-2023-20871

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Published

2023-04-25

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Updated

2023-07-13

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CVSS 3.1
7.8
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Fusion (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to a local privilege escalation, where a malicious actor with read/write access to the host operating system can gain root access. This is due to insecure privilege management in the Raw Disk Handler component of the VMware Fusion hypervisor.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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