CVE-2014-4200 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-4200?

CVE-2014-4200 is a medium-severity 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, uses 0644 permissions for the vm-support archive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by extracting files from this archive.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4200?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2014-4200?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-4200 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4200 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Vmware Workstation vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4200, GHSA-959q-xwwj-g697.