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CVE-2014-4199

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• VMware Tools: all versions
• VMware Vm-Support: 0.88
• VMware Workstation: through 10.0.3; 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71
• http://www.osvdb.org/110458
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71
• http://www.osvdb.org/110458
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493

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