CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-27 04:53
Modified
2025-03-06 15:39
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • File descriptor hijack vulnerability
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a open-vm-tools Version: 11.0.0   <
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