Vulnerability CVE-2023-34059


Published: 2023-10-27

Description:
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the
/dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.

 References:
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html

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