DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1143

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1143 PUBLISHED CVSS 7 HIGH

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).

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	open-vm-tools	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	open-vm-tools	2:12.2.0-1, ,
Debian:12	open-vm-tools	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	open-vm-tools	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Nov 23, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1143 advisory

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