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HIGH

open-vm-tools: access bypass due to realpath race condition in mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter)

Published Nov 23, 2022

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).

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (8)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 23, 2022
Updated Apr 25, 2025
Reserved Mar 25, 2009
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 25, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Nov 23, 2022
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 23, 2022
Updated Apr 25, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2009-1144