Race condition in VMware Tools - CVE-2015-5191
Published: August 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7639
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5191
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in the libDeployPkg component. A local attacker can use the hard-coded paths under /tm, trigger race condition and gain root privileges on the system.
Affected software
VMware Tools
Fedora
open-vm-tools
Fedora
open-vm-tools
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5191
Update to version 10.0.9.
open-vm-tools - addressed in versions 10.1.5-5.fc25, 10.1.5-5.fc26