CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:39
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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.
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
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a open-vm-tools Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 12.3.0 (custom)
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