CVE-2009-1142 (GCVE-0-2009-1142)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-25 20:49 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
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