CVE-2009-1142
MEDIUM6.7EPSS 0.05%Published: 11/23/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |