CVE-2009-1142

CVSS 6.7 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-59

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.7EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

23 Nov 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848