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  "id": "CVE-2009-1142",
  "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
  "published": "2022-11-23T18:15:10.770",
  "lastModified": "2022-11-28T18:33:36.763",
  "vulnStatus": "Analyzed",
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      "value": "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."
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          "attackVector": "LOCAL",
          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "privilegesRequired": "HIGH",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
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      "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577",
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