CVE-2023-34059

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.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "vmware",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "11.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.3.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/34xxx/CVE-2023-34059.json"
}

References

CVE-2023-34059

Affected packages