CVE-2009-1142

low-risk
Published 2022-11-23

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.05% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.7/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Open Vm Tools

Affected Vendors

Vmware

References (4)

Issue Tracking https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
Release Notes https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
Issue Tracking https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
Release Notes https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
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low-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal