VMware Workstation

CVE-2023-20854
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 22 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Modified

Description

VMware Workstation contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim's machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of the machine on which Workstation is installed.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware Workstationaffected VMware Workstation (17.x prior to 17.0.1)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD