CVE-2009-1143

published 2022-11-23

CVE-2009-1143: An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that…

high 7 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC H PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	open-vm-tools	< open-vm-tools 2:12.0.0-1 (bookworm)	open-vm-tools 2:12.0.0-1 (bookworm)
vmware	open-vm-tools	—	—
vmware	open-vm-tools	>= 0 < 2:12.0.0-1	2:12.0.0-1
vmware	open-vm-tools	>= 0 < 2:12.0.0-1	2:12.0.0-1
vmware	open-vm-tools	>= 0 < 2:12.0.0-1	2:12.0.0-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.0 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

osv 7.0 HIGH

CWE-59