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FKIE_CVE-2014-4199

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-08-28 15:14 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46

Severity ?

Summary

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

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.osvdb.org/110458
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.osvdb.org/110458
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
vmware	tools	*
vmware	vm-support	0.88
vmware	workstation	*
vmware	workstation	10.0
vmware	workstation	10.0.1
vmware	workstation	10.0.2

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CVE-2014-4199 (GCVE-0-2014-4199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-28 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:04

Summary

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

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	http://www.osvdb.org/110458	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2014-4199

CVE-2014-4199 (GCVE-0-2014-4199)

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