CVE-2014-4200: VMware Tools

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: any version
• VMware Vm-Support: version 0.88 only
• VMware Workstation: up to and including 10.0.3; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only

Published 2014-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.