VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2009-1142
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848.
MEDIUM 6.7EPSS 0.28%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- vmware/open vm tools
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.