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  "cveId": "CVE-2022-31676",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31676",
  "summary": "CVE-2022-31676 is fixed in 4 products on 1 platform, first by open-vm-tools 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.2, released August 22, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "open-vm-tools: VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability",
  "description": "VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine.",
  "published": "2022-08-22T17:00:00Z",
  "severity": "high",
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  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00546,
  "epssPercentile": 0.46035,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
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