CVE-2023-34059

CVSS 7.4 HIGHEPSS 0.4%CWE-404

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7.4EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

27 Oct 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

n/a · open-vm-tools

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References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00002.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7G77Z76CQPGUF7VHRA6O3UFCMPPR4O2/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQUOFQL2SNNNMKROQ3TZQY4HEYMNOIBW/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLTKVTRKQW2GD2274H3UOW6XU4E62GSK/https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5543 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3 https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/26/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/27/1