CVE-2014-4199
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.3
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2:9.4.6-1770165-7 |
| sid | Fixed | 2:9.4.6-1770165-7 |
| forky | Fixed | 2:9.4.6-1770165-7 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2:9.4.6-1770165-7 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2:9.4.6-1770165-7 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | tools | | |
| vmware | vm-support | 0.88 | |
| vmware | workstation | {"endIncluding":"10.0.3"} | |
| vmware | workstation | 10.0 | |
| vmware | workstation | 10.0.1 | |
| vmware | workstation | 10.0.2 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.