CVE-2023-34059: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• VMware Open Vm Tools: from 11.0.0, up to and including 12.3.0

Published 2023-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.