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.
Published: 2022-11-23
Score: 6.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1143 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.
History

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Vmware Open Vm Tools
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-25T20:50:09.805Z

Reserved: 2009-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1142

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:49.297Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-23T18:15:10.770

Modified: 2025-04-25T21:15:16.083

Link: CVE-2009-1142

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1142 - Bugzilla

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