CVE-2023-34059

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.

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5543

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WLTKVTRKQW2GD2274H3UOW6XU4E62GSK/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MQUOFQL2SNNNMKROQ3TZQY4HEYMNOIBW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/G7G77Z76CQPGUF7VHRA6O3UFCMPPR4O2/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00002.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/27/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/26/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3