CVE-2014-4200
open-vm-tools: vm-support's diagnostics archive created with world-readable permissions
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · August 26, 2014
Updated · June 27, 2026
Description
vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, uses 0644 permissions for the vm-support archive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by extracting files from this archive.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE-538 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory