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CVE-2015-5191 json

VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp.

published 2017-07-28 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5192

cvss
6.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in a local privilege escalation. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Patch / fix

  • open-vm-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:10.1.5-5055683-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5191

  • open-vm-tools Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5191

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • open-vm-tools SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 10.1.0-5.3.1
  • open-vm-tools SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 10.1.0-7.1
  • open-vm-tools SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2, SLED 12 SP2 10.1.0-8.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1SUSE-SU-2017:0702-1

  • open-vm-tools openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.1.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10475-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5191 updated cvss 3.6

open-vm-tools: /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-test, open-vm-tools-desktop
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • VMware VMware Tools

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.