CVE-2014-4199

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

28/08/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vm-support:0.88:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::		10.0.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.2:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vm-support:0.88:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::		10.0.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.2:::::::*

CVE-2014-4199

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools