vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab…

Description

vmware-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 interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-16 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-16 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• vmware-vmwarehgfsmounter-sec-bypass(66699) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 44904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110303 Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110322 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110307 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110401 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110304 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110314 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110303 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110305 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110331 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20110315 Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2011:0617 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2011-1681](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2011-1681.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2011-1681)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 22:37 UTC.