CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848

Medium · published November 23, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00280 · 19.3th percentile
Published
2022-11-23T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 NOV 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848
    cvelistv5