Vulnerability CVE-2009-1143
Published: 2022-11-23

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).

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848
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