High-Severity Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in VMware Workstation

VMware has informed users about the availability of patches for a Workstation vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious hackers for privilege escalation.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20854 and rated ‘high severity’, has been described by VMware as an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability affecting version 17.x on Windows. “A malicious actor with local user privileges on the victim’s machine may exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files from the fi