File and Directory Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-test  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENVMTOOLSTEST-1328222
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Aug 2014

Introduced: 26 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-4200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-538  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-test package and not the open-vm-tools-test package as distributed by RHEL.

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.