CVE-2014-4199

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758

http://www.osvdb.org/110458

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-08-28

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N