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CVE-2023-34059

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-404

Description

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 Linux: 10.0, 11.0, 12.0
• VMware Open Vm Tools: from 11.0.0 through 12.3.0
• open-vm-tools: from 11.0.0 through 12.3.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/26/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/27/1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00002.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7G77Z76CQPGUF7VHRA6O3UFCMPPR4O2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQUOFQL2SNNNMKROQ3TZQY4HEYMNOIBW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLTKVTRKQW2GD2274H3UOW6XU4E62GSK/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5543
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3

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