CVE-2009-1143

HIGH 7.0CVE-2009-1143 · Published 23/11/2022 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-1143 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.0) vulnerability affecting open-vm-tools (vmware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.27%, higher than 19.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
open-vm-tools vmware	`= 2009.03.18-154848`	No fix yet

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).

References

bugs.gentoo.org/264577 · Issue Tracking
vmware/open-vm-tools release 2009.03.18-154848 · Release Notes

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