CVE-2023-34059
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2023-10-26 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
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.
See more information about CVE-2023-34059 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.4 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2023-7279 | 2023-11-16 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2023-7265 | 2023-11-21 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (open-vm-tools) | ELSA-2023-7277 | 2023-11-16 |
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