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vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

No package listedSuggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 28, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-4199

GHSA ID

GHSA-v55p-68fc-xxcv

Source code

No known source code

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