{"action":"Upgrade open-vm-tools to 12.1.0-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"12.1.0-r0","introduced":"0"}],"component":"open-vm-tools","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.23","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["12.1.0-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M6HJZDE0AZ2PDQJBDMYCW2ZD","modified_at":"2026-11-03T07:31:25.815508468Z","published_at":"2022-08-23T20:15:08.903Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2022-31676","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-31676"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2022-31676#Alpine:v3.23/open-vm-tools","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2022-31676"}],"summary":"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 u"}