CVE-2014-4199

open-vm-tools: insecure temporary file creation

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · August 26, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-377 · Insecure Temporary File