{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-11-23T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "open-vm-tools: privilege escalation if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled",
    "id" : "2158065",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158065"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-59",
  "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.", "A vulnerability was found in open-vm-tools. This flaw allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if the vmware-user-suid-wrapper is the setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "open-vm-tools",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "open-vm-tools",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "open-vm-tools",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1142\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1142\nhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474285" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1142",
  "csaw" : false
}