CVE-2014-4199 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

63%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

153%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-08-28 15:14:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:34:00

Affected Software

VMWare Tools

VMware vm-support 0.88

0.88

VMWare Workstation 10.0

10.0

VMWare Workstation 10.0.1

10.0.1

VMWare Workstation 10.0.2

10.0.2

VMWare VMWare

References

20140826 VMware vm-support multiple vulnerabilities

Exploit

110458

1030758

vmware-support-cve20144199-dos(95493)

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