CVE-2014-4200

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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.

Published: 2014-08-28 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-4200 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.40%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-4200

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-4200

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.04% 0.40% +0.36%
2 2023-03-07 0.95% 0.04% -0.91%
3 2022-02-04 — 0.95% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-4200

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.7 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.4 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-4200

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-4200

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2014-4200 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (open-vm-tools), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4200
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4200

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-4200

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
vmware tools — cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vm-support 0.88 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vm-support:0.88:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation <= 10.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation 10.0 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation 10.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation 10.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-4200

cvelogic Threat Intelligence