{"id":"CVE-2014-4199","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-4199","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:05:01.614Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2014-08-28T15:14:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:09:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["vmware/tools","vmware/vm-support","vmware/workstation"],"epss":{"score":0.00432,"percentile":0.37173,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/110458","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/110458","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030758","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95493","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4199","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}