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CVE-2009-1142
published 2022-11-23

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…

medium6.7CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH
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.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianopen-vm-tools< open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen_vm_tools

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
osv6.7MEDIUM