Workaround - Procedure to turn off the Bluetooth support on a virtual machine

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

VMware has investigated the following vulnerabilities and has determined that the possibility of exploitation can be removed by performing the steps in the Workaround section of this article.

VMSA-2023-0008 (CVE-2023-20869, CVE-2023-20870)
VMSA-2024-0010 (CVE-2024-22267, CVE-2024-22269)

This workaround is a temporary solution until updates documented in the above VMware security advisories can be deployed.

Environment

VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Resolution

Resolution is documented in:

VMSA-2023-0008 (CVE-2023-20869, CVE-2023-20870)
VMSA-2024-0010 (CVE-2024-22267, CVE-2024-22269)

Workaround:

The workaround is to turn off the Bluetooth support on the virtual machine.

Uncheck the option Share Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine on the impacted products by following the procedure described here:

VMware Workstation Pro:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/17/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-82E79E50-3073-4081-9FE6-0927076EA0AD.html
 

VMware Workstation Player:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player-for-Windows/17.0/com.vmware.player.win.using.doc/GUID-82E79E50-3073-4081-9FE6-0927076EA0AD.html
 

VMware Fusion:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/13/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-9C42F404-F254-4E42-A5A7-2876B408FBB1.html