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CVE-2023-20871:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2023-20871 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VMware Fusion. The vulnerability was discovered in early 2023 and publicly disclosed on April 25, 2023. It specifically impacts VMware Fusion version 13.x running on macOS operating systems (VMware Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High severity) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, and low privileges to exploit (NVD).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows a malicious actor with read/write access to the host operating system to elevate their privileges and gain root access to the host operating system (VMware Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
VMware has released version 13.0.2 of VMware Fusion to address this vulnerability. No workarounds are available, making it critical for users to update to the fixed version (VMware Advisory, Help Net Security).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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