CVE-2023-20867
Essential information
- Published
- 23/06/2023 02:00
- Modified
- 21/12/2025 05:28
- Author
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Creator
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- CVSS
- 3.9 LOW (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- CWE
- —
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/C:L/I:L/A:N—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
- —
- Availability impact
- —
- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- —
- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
- Exploit code maturity
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Attack requirements
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
- —
- Exploit maturity
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Description
VMware Tools contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module. 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. An attacker must have root access over ESXi to exploit this vulnerability.
NVD status
- NVD
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