{"action":"Upgrade open-vm-tools to 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"open-vm-tools","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5N98S5ZXYZPZ1NBH51NNF04","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:00:08.656798071Z","published_at":"2022-11-23T18:15:10.770Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1142"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":6.7},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142#Debian:13/open-vm-tools","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1142"}],"summary":"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 fu"}