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Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Fusion Products

27 April 2023

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20869, CVE-2023-20870, CVE-2023-20871, CVE-2023-20872) affecting VMware Workstation and Fusion products.

The vulnerabilities are:

  • CVE-2023-20869: An attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process runs on the host.

  • CVE-2023-20870: An attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to read privileged information contained in hypervisor memory from a virtual machine.

  • CVE-2023-20871: An attacker with read/write access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.

  • CVE-2023-20872: An attacker with access to a virtual machine that has a physical CD/DVD drive attached and configured to use a virtual Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) controller may be able to exploit this vulnerability to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

The vulnerabilities affect the following product versions:

  • VMware Workstation versions 17.0 through 17.0.1

  • VMware Fusion versions 13.0 through 13.0.1

Users and administrators of affected product versions are advised to update to the latest versions immediately.

More information is available here:

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0008.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vmware-fixes-critical-zero-day-exploit-chain-used-at-pwn2own/

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