CVE-2009-1143 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2009-1143 PUBLISHED

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).

EPSS 0.03% · 8.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.03%

8.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1, 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2, 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:11.0.1-2, 2:10.3.10-3ubuntu1, 0
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu4, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu1, 2013.09.16-1328054-0ubuntu2
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm3, 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm4, 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2

Timeline

Nov 23, 2022 CVE Published
Nov 24, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-1143 third-party-advisory
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1143 third-party-advisory

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