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CVE record · CVE-2023-20900

A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual ma…

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.015 · 73rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 31 Aug 2023, 09:45 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
Not given VMware Tools
  • affected 12.x.x
  • affected 11.x.x
  • affected 10.3.x
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Tools
  • affected 10.3.x
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)
  • affected 12.x.x
  • affected 11.x.x
  • affected 10.3.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-20900
CNA
vmware
Tags
Published
31 Aug 2023
Updated
8 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.015, the 73rd 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 31 Aug 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.