{"id":14232,"date":"2022-08-23T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/privilege-escalation-flaw-haunts-vmware-tools\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:32:08","slug":"privilege-escalation-flaw-haunts-vmware-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/privilege-escalation-flaw-haunts-vmware-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Privilege Escalation Flaw Haunts VMware Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong><span>Virtualization technology software giant VMware on Tuesday released patches to fix an important-severity security flaw in the VMware Tools suite of utilities.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a compromised system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/privilege-escalation-flaw-haunts-vmware-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualization technology software giant VMware on Tuesday released patches to fix an important-severity security flaw in the VMware Tools suite of utilities. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a compromised system. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13,20,16,25,14,10,30,31,21,34,11,17,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application-security","category-audits","category-cloud-security","category-compliance","category-data-protection","category-email-security","category-endpoint-security","category-fraud-identity-theft","category-identity-access","category-malware","category-network-security","category-news-industry","category-phishing","category-virus-malware","category-vulnerabilities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}