CVE-2009-1142: VMware Open Vm Tools

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Open Vm Tools: version 2009.03.18-154848 only

Published 2022-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.