CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-4199

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-08-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-08-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware tools • vmware vm-support 0.88 • vmware workstation (<= 10.0.3) • vmware workstation 10.0 • vmware workstation 10.0.1 • vmware workstation 10.0.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References