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CVE-2014-4199
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…
Medium6.3EPSS 0.43%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.3 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20140826 VMware vm-support multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- vmware-support-cve20144199-dos(95493) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 110458 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1030758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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