vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2023-34059: open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 27, 2023
Added
Nov 16, 2023
Modified
Sep 1, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

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