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medium 6.7

CVE-2009-1142 json

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848.

published 2022-11-23 3 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1143

cvss
6.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • open-vm-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-1142 updated cvss 6.7

open-vm-tools: privilege escalation if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-test, open-vm-tools-desktop Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-sdmp, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-sdmp, open-vm-tools-test, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-salt-minion
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.