Information Disclosure in VMware Tools by VMware
CVE-2014-4200

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Status
Vm-support
Workstation
Tools
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 August 2014

Summary

A vulnerability exists in vm-support version 0.88 of VMware Tools, included with VMware Workstation up to version 10.0.3, due to improper file permissions being set to 0644 for the vm-support archive. This misconfiguration allows local users to potentially extract sensitive information from this archive, which could lead to unauthorized access to confidential data.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69410
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/71
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95494
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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