ELSA-2023-3948: Security update for 5 packages

ELSA-2023-3948, released July 7, 2023, fixes 1 CVE across 5 products. One of them is being exploited (CVE-2023-20867); 1 on CISA KEV. Patch Radar priority: Patch now.

Patch now1 on CISA KEV

CVEs closed

None rated Critical

Exploited

CVE-2023-20867

Highest CVSS

3.9

Base score, 0 to 10

Highest EPSS

0.1364

96th percentile

Fixed package versions

Product	Release	Fixed in
open-vm-tools	ol 9	0:12.1.5-1.0.2.el9
open-vm-tools-desktop	ol 9	0:12.1.5-1.0.2.el9
open-vm-tools-salt-minion	ol 9	0:12.1.5-1.0.2.el9
open-vm-tools-sdmp	ol 9	0:12.1.5-1.0.2.el9
open-vm-tools-test	ol 9	0:12.1.5-1.0.2.el9

CVEs this fix closes

Priority	CVE	Title	CVSS	EPSS	Exploitation
Patch now	CVE-2023-20867	open-vm-tools: A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the...	3.9	0.1364	KEVExploited

Also fixes CVE-2023-20867

DSA-5493-1
open-vm-tools on Debian 11.6 (bullseye), Debian 12.15 (bookworm)
ALAS2023-2023-259
open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-debuginfo, open-vm-tools-debugsource and 8 more on amzn 2023
RLSA-2023:3948
open-vm-tools on rocky 9
RLSA-2023:3949
open-vm-tools on rocky 8
ELSA-2023-3949
open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion and 1 more on ol 8
ALSA-2023:3948
open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion and 2 more on almalinux 9
ALSA-2023:3949
open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion and 1 more on almalinux 8
RHSA-2023:3948
open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion and 2 more on RHEL 9

Vendor advisory

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-3948.html

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