CVE-2009-1142
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.7 Medium
- Published
- Nov 23, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 25, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 25, 2009
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.7 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
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