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    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-OPENVMTOOLS-3146788
  • published 24 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 23 Nov 2022
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Introduced: 23 Nov 2022

CVE-2009-1143 Open this link in a new tab
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Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools package and not the open-vm-tools package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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).