Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2022· Updated Apr 25, 2025
CVE-2009-1143
CVE-2009-1143
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).
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Affected products
2- open-vm-tools/open-vm-toolsdescription
- Range: = 2009.03.18-154848
Patches
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