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CVE record · CVE-2023-20867

VMware Tools Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

CVSS 3.9 LowCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.14 · 96th percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 23 Jun 2023: it is known to be exploited.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 13 Jun 2023, 16:47 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
VMware VMware Tools
  • unaffected 12.2.5
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-20867
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-287
Tags
Published
13 Jun 2023
Updated
21 Oct 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
3.9 Low 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 23 Jun 2023: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.14, the 96th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 13 Jun 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.