Symlink Attack Affecting vmware/open-vm-tools package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMWAREOPENVMTOOLS-2333578
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Aug 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-4199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for vmware/open-vm-tools.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1