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CVE-2022-31676 is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. No known exploits currently, and patches are available.
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Very low probability of exploitation
EPSS predicts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days based on real-world threat data, complementing CVSS severity scores with actual risk assessment.
VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| Netapp | Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility |
| VMware | Tools |
| Linux | Linux Kernel |
| Debian | Debian Linux |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora |
| Microsoft | Windows |