| Name | CVE-2023-20867 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3531-1, DSA-5493-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1037546 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| open-vm-tools (PTS) | buster | 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid | 2:12.4.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013.html
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/CVE-2023-20867.patch