Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1142

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-11-23 00:00:00

Last updated 2025-04-25 20:50:09

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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