CVE-2017-4918

Public PoC / Exploit (1)

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

VMware Horizon View Client (2.x, 3.x and 4.x prior to 4.5.0) contains a command injection vulnerability in the service startup script. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on the Mac OSX system where the client is installed.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-77

Affected Products (14)

vmware · horizon_viewvulnerable

References (6)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98984

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038642

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0011.html

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98984

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038642

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0011.html

Vendor Advisory