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Case File

CVE-2009-1143

HIGH · CVSS 7 EPSS 0.25% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-11-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2009-1143
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
0.25%

Original NVD Description

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).