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CVE-2022-31660 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root, potentially by exploiting improper privilege management or insufficient access controls within the affected products.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module targeting a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31660) in VMware Workspace ONE Access on Linux systems. The exploit leverages the ability of the 'horizon' user to overwrite the cert-proxy.sh script and restart the vmware-certproxy service via sudo without a password. The module checks for the necessary conditions (user, sudo permissions, file writability), backs up the original script, writes a payload (either a shell command or binary), and restarts the service to execute the payload as root. After exploitation, it attempts to restore the original file and permissions. The main fingerprintable endpoints are the cert-proxy.sh script and the service control scripts. The exploit is operational and provides privilege escalation from the 'horizon' user to root.
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