CVE-2014-4199

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 93% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: August 28, 2014 (4277 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

Description

vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /tmp.

CWE

CWE-59

Affected Products

vmware toolsvmware vm-supportvmware workstation

References

🔗 seclists.org 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 seclists.org