@agners This is a feature request to update open-vm-tools to the latest version 12.1.0 on all .vmdk images of HAOS for virtual installations as it solves security and other issues as you can read here:
Thanks!
It is a local privilege escallation, which isn’t a huge concern as HAOS is largely a single purpose system with most things running as root.
That said, I’ve used their backported patch and added it: