Vmware » Open-vm-tools : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs,
vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Max CVSS
3.3
EPSS Score
0.05%
Published
2011-04-10
Updated
2017-08-17
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).
Max CVSS
7.0
EPSS Score
0.04%
Published
2022-11-23
Updated
2022-11-28
2 vulnerabilities found