Tag: Patches

On August 23rd 2022, VMware confirmed an important-rated security vulnerability affecting VMware Tools. This local privilege escalation vulnerability impacts Open VM Tools as well. VMware Tools vulnerability: CVE-2022-31676 Identified as CVE-2022-31676, this VMware Tools vulnerability can allow a potential attacker with local non-administrative access to the guest operating system (virtual machine) to escalate privileges as

The Polkit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, PwnKit, has been hidden in plain view for more than a decade — 12 years to be precise — in Linux. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys’ researchers in November, 2021. Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities, such as PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034), allow unprivileged local users to get root privileges. The PwnKit vulnerability was