CVE-2009-1142

MEDIUM

6.7

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.7

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredHIGH

User InteractionNONE

Published11/23/2022

Last Modified4/25/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

vmware:open_vm_tools

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59CWE-59

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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