CVE-2014-4199

CVE-2014-4199 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in vm-support 0.88 within VMware Tools, affecting products like VMware Workstation through version 10.0.3. This flaw allows a local attacker to write to arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files in /tmp. With a CVSS score of 6.3 (medium severity), successful exploitation requires local access and medium attack complexity, leading to high integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.