{"id":"RLSA-2022:6357","summary":"Important: open-vm-tools security update","details":"The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:14:44.522789Z","published":"2022-09-06T14:26:28Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-31676"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:6357"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118714"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"open-vm-tools","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/open-vm-tools?distro=rocky-linux-8-6-legacy&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2022:6357.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}