RHSA-2023:7263 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 16, 2023
Updated · April 30, 2026
Topic
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Security Fix(es):
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open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass (CVE-2023-34058)
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open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper (CVE-2023-34059)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.