RHSA-2023:7263 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

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):

  • open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass (CVE-2023-34058)

  • 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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:7263 — Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update | PulseLinux