CVE-2023-34045

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in vmware fusion. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Fusion(13.x prior to 13.5) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that occurs during installation for the first time (the user needs to drag or copy the application to a folder from the '.dmg' volume) or when installing an upgrade. A malicious actor with local non-administrative user privileges may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the system where Fusion is installed or being installed for the first time.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2023-10-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vmware:fusion

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0022.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0022.html

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