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CVE-2009-1143

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

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).

Affected products

• VMware Open-Vm-Tools: 2009.03.18-154848

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
• https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
• https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848

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