High severity · published Nov 23, 2022
CVE-2009-1143
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848
7.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 18% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Open-vm-tools · Vmware
2009.03.18-154848 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1143
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1143
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
Release Notes
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
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