An 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 mount.vmhgfs (aka hgfsmounter).
Exploitability
AV:LAC:HPR:LUI:NScope
S:UImpact
C:HI:HA:H7/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H