CVE-2014-4199 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-4199?

CVE-2014-4199 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 28 Aug 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4199?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Vmware Tools, Vmware Vm-Support, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2014-4199?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-4199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4199, GHSA-v55p-68fc-xxcv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4199.