CVE-2009-1143

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).

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.0 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2022-11-23

Last modified

2025-04-25

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Open-vm-tools (Vmware)

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
• https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848