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4 vulnerabilities found for open-vm-tools by vmware
CVE-2009-1143 (GCVE-0-2009-1143)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:48
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
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CVE-2011-1681 (GCVE-0-2011-1681)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-04-10 01:29 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37
VLAI
Summary
vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2011-03-03 00:00
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CVE-2009-1143 (GCVE-0-2009-1143)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:48
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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CVE-2011-1681 (GCVE-0-2011-1681)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2011-04-10 01:29 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:37
VLAI
Summary
vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
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