CVE-2009-1142 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0003.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Vmware	Open Vm Tools

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:2009.03.18-154848:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-1143	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474285
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1142
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1142

History

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-23T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-25T20:50:09.805Z

Reserved: 2009-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1142

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:49.297Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-23T18:15:10.770

Modified: 2025-04-25T21:15:16.083

Link: CVE-2009-1142

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1142 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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