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CVE-2009-1142

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.7 Published: 2022-11-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Vmware Open Vm Tools

Weakness Type

CWE-59, CWE-59

References