{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20854 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-20854 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-20854 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 3 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-20854 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-20854 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 3 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20854 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Workstation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20854/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20854/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-20854","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20854/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-20854","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q2j8-g836-9cv5"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware Workstation","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can delete arbitrary files on the host system via VMware Workstation, potentially causing data loss or system instability.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"workstation","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":8.4,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"VMware Workstation contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim's machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the file system of the machine on which Workstation is installed.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2023-20854","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:workstation","products":["vmware:workstation"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"XML external entity in VMware vRealize Orchestrator, VMware vRealize Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation","id":"CVE-2023-20855"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"aEnrich a+HRD - Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2023-20853"},"products":["VMware Workstation"],"published":"2023-02-03","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Use after free in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5525","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-06-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Path traversal in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5511","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5512","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-09"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5526","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-05-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Other in Workstation","id":"CVE-2017-4939","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-17"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-1069","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-05-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-03-26","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A local attacker can delete arbitrary files on the host system via VMware Workstation, potentially causing data loss or system instability.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20854/"}