description: 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.
problem types: Local privilege escalation vulnerability
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: VMware Tools
versions:
version: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y), status: affected
}