{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:28Z",
  "published": "2022-11-23T18:15:10Z",
  "id": "CVE-2009-1142",
  "details": "An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577"
    }
  ]
}