CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Remediation Deadline: Jul 14, 2023
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.
EPSS — Exploit Probability
2.7%
Higher than 85.8% of all CVEs
Required Action
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20867
Risk Assessment
ELEVATEDIn CISA KEV
Details
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 2.7%
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Unknown
- Articles
- 0
Timeline
Published
Jun 23, 2023
Added to KEV
Jun 23, 2023
Remediation Due
Jul 14, 2023