Open VM Tools vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product103 versions
The short answer

Open VM Tools is made by VMware. We track 4 published vulnerabilities in it, across 103 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Open VM Tools, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

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None of Open VM Tools's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Open VM Tools flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 1.5%

    A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able...

    CVSS7.5Published31 Aug 2023
  2. 0.7%

    VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability.

    CVSS7.1Published27 Oct 2023
  3. 0.4%

    open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper.

    CVSS7.4Published27 Oct 2023
  4. 0.3%

    An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848.

    CVSS6.7Published23 Nov 2022
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We track 4 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Open VM Tools, across 103 versions.

None of Open VM Tools's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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