CVE-2023-34059

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34059
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-34059.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-34059
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-10-27T05:15:39.013Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:46:57.525601Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Events
Introduced
801d4b7f4978945aa0fd53259011e2da6345cc43
Last affected
865e76adf86fb38380220a3b760aa92ba5407c60
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
801d4b7f4978945aa0fd53259011e2da6345cc43
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b7ab96e6e38f6559cb882278a53d7a7ea5c0592c
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "11.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "12.3.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "11.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "12.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

stable-11.*
stable-11.0.0
stable-12.*
stable-12.3.0

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-34059.json"