CVE-2023-20900Published

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 priv…

Exact source revision recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

Recorded JSON

cve-program · CVE-2023-20900

Published

VMware Tools

Vendor product

Original vendor version evidence · not evaluated as a NuGet range

{
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "platforms": [
                        "Windows"
                    ],
                    "product": "VMware Tools",
                    "vendor": "n/a",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "12.x.x"
                        },
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "11.x.x"
                        },
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "10.3.x"
                        }
                    ]
                }

VMware Tools

Vendor product

Original vendor version evidence · not evaluated as a NuGet range

{
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "platforms": [
                        "Linux"
                    ],
                    "product": "VMware Tools",
                    "vendor": "n/a",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "10.3.x"
                        }
                    ]
                }

VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)

Vendor product

Original vendor version evidence · not evaluated as a NuGet range

{
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "platforms": [
                        "Linux"
                    ],
                    "product": "VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)",
                    "vendor": "n/a",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "12.x.x"
                        },
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "11.x.x"
                        },
                        {
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "10.3.x"
                        }
                    ]
                }

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