CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.7. It affects VMware, VMWare. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
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CVE
CVE-2009-1142
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
EPSS
0.27%
VMware VMWare
Original NVD Description
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.
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