A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-v...UID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmw...f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .