{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4199 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2014-4199 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4199 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Workstation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-4199/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-4199/index.md)","id":"CVE-2014-4199","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-4199/index.md","name":"CVE-2014-4199","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4199","GHSA-v55p-68fc-xxcv","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4199"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware Tools","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can write to arbitrary files via symlink attacks in VMware Tools, potentially compromising system integrity.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"tools","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"vm-support","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"workstation","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-4199","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:workstation","products":["vmware:workstation"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2014"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-4200"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-4198"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2014-08-28","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Tools","id":"CVE-2023-34057","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-10-27"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7079","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-12-29"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7080","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-12-29"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"XML external entity in VMware Tools for Windows","id":"CVE-2022-22977","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-05-24"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in VMware Tools for Windows","id":"CVE-2019-5522","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-06-06"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Race condition in VMware Tools for Windows (VMware Tools)","id":"CVE-2020-3941","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-01-15"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Information disclosure in VMware Tools","id":"CVE-2018-6969","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-07-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can write to arbitrary files via symlink attacks in VMware Tools, potentially compromising system integrity.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-4199/"}