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Acknowledged

LIN1021-6767 : Security Advisory - open-vm-tools - CVE-2023-34059

Created: Oct 28, 2023    Updated: Jan 12, 2026
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.