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).
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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). |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-25T20:48:15.056Z
Reserved: 2009-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-1143
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:04:48.310Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-11-23T18:15:10.823
Modified: 2025-04-25T21:15:16.847
Link: CVE-2009-1143
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