CVE-2009-1143 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

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 0.00017.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Vmware	Open-vm-tools

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-1144	An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).

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=372070
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1143
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1143

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: 2025-04-25T20:48:15.056Z

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

Link: CVE-2009-1143

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:48.310Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-23T18:15:10.823

Modified: 2025-04-25T21:15:16.847

Link: CVE-2009-1143

Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2009-1143 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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