{"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:40:41.136721Z","published":"2022-11-23T18:15:10Z","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"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}