CVE-2009-1142

6.7 mediumEPSS 0.3%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2022-11-23
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vmware:open_vm_tools

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848

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