Vulnerability Details CVE-2009-1142
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 7.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.7
References
Products affected by CVE-2009-1142
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:2009.03.18-154848