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CVE-2009-1142

Date: November 22, 2022

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.

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Related Resources (5)

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1142
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1142
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-1142

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): HIGH
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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