CVE-2023-34059

Summary

CVECVE-2023-34059
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-27 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-08 04:15:00 UTC
Descriptionopen-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 12.0 All All All
Application Vmware Open Vm Tools All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMSA-2023-0024 MISC www.vmware.com
oss-security - CVE-2023-34059 - File Descriptor Hijack vulnerability in open-vm-tools MISC www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: open-vm-tools-12.3.0-3.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: open-vm-tools-12.3.0-3.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5543-1 open-vm-tools MISC www.debian.org
oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-34059 - File Descriptor Hijack vulnerability in open-vm-tools MISC www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: open-vm-tools-12.3.0-3.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3646-1] open-vm-tools security update MISC lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161132 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2023-7279)
  • 161133 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2023-7277)
  • 161157 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ELSA-2023-7265)
  • 199880 Ubuntu Security Notification for Open VM Tools Vulnerabilities (USN-6463-1)
  • 199985 Ubuntu Security Notification for Open VM Tools Vulnerability (USN-6463-2)
  • 242467 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7279)
  • 242471 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7265)
  • 242472 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7277)
  • 242473 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7264)
  • 242474 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7276)
  • 242475 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7267)
  • 242596 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7262)
  • 242601 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7263)
  • 242608 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7260)
  • 242619 Red Hat Update for open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7261)
  • 257282 CentOS Security Update for open-vm-tools (CESA-2023:7279)
  • 284713 Fedora Security Update for open (FEDORA-2023-1ed0ec0035)
  • 284714 Fedora Security Update for open (FEDORA-2023-08e2bb6815)
  • 285163 Fedora Security Update for open (FEDORA-2023-86a50ffc72)
  • 356608 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for open-vm-tools : ALAS2-2023-2329
  • 356636 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for open-vm-tools : ALAS2023-2023-423
  • 379041 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0048)
  • 379196 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0140)
  • 6000262 Debian Security Update for open-vm-tools (DLA 3646-1)
  • 6000314 Debian Security Update for open-vm-tools (DSA 5543-1)
  • 6140274 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for open-vm-tools (GHSA-5mj7-55gx-r3qf)
  • 691343 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for open (d2505ec7-78ea-11ee-9131-6f01853956d5)
  • 755172 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1)
  • 755173 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2023:4229-1)
  • 755174 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2023:4228-1)
  • 755175 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2023:4227-1)
  • 941417 AlmaLinux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALSA-2023:7277)
  • 941477 AlmaLinux Security Update for open-vm-tools (ALSA-2023:7265)
  • 961081 Rocky Linux Security Update for open-vm-tools (RLSA-2023:7265)
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