CVE-2009-1143

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

High · published November 23, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.8th 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