CVE-2011-1681: VMware Open-Vm-Tools

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

Affected products

• VMware Open-Vm-Tools: up to and including 8.4.2-261024

Published 2011-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.