CVE-2015-5191

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2017-07-24
Bugzilla:
1253689: CVE-2015-5191 open-vm-tools: /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in a local privilege escalation. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Find out more about CVE-2015-5191 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 open-vm-tools Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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