Open-vm-tools

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Open-vm-tools, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 4 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Open-vm-tools.

• CVE-2025-41244VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)KEV7.8Sep 29, 2025
• CVE-2023-34059open-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 all...7.4Oct 27, 2023
• CVE-2009-1143An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mounting shares via a symlink attack that leverages a realpath race condition in m...7.0Nov 23, 2022
• CVE-2011-1681vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would in...3.3Apr 10, 2011