# CVE-2009-1142: An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848.

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-11-23 · Updated: 2025-04-25

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

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

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