cve/2009/CVE-2009-1142.md

### [CVE-2009-1142](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1142)
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### Description

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 function is enabled.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2009-1142