CVE-2009-1142 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in open-vm-tools versions 2009.03.18-154848. This flaw allows a local user to gain elevated privileges through a symlink attack on temporary files, provided the vmware-user-suid-wrapper is configured as setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2009.03.18-154848CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:2009.03.18-154848:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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