Feb. 3, 2023, 2:06 p.m. | Pierluigi Paganini

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VMware addressed a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20854, in VMware Workstation. VMware fixed a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20854, that impacts Workstation. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to delete arbitrary files on Workstation version 17.x for Windows OS.  “An arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in VMware Workstation was privately reported to VMware. Updates are […]


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