Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2009-1142

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: Nov 23, 2022
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2009-1142
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.7
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / open_vm_tools 2009.03.18-154848 2009.03.18-154848.x