CVE-2009-1142

medium

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.

References

Advisories

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-11-23

Updated: 2025-04-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H