CVE-2009-1142

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.003 · 20 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.28% (20th) EPSS

CVSS 6.7 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware open vm tools= 2009.03.18-154848nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-11-23modified 2026-06-16

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 cnnvd
https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2009-1142/cnnvd
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-toolsPatchcnnvd
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 cnnvd
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 enisa_euvd
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577Issue TrackingThird Party Advisorynvd
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848Release NotesThird Party Advisorynvd

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