VMware Horizon Client: CVE-2017-4918 Horizon View Client command injection vulnerability (VMSA-2017-0011)
10
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
06/08/2017
07/16/2022
05/25/2022
11/27/2024
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.
Solution(s)
- vmware-horizon-client-upgrade-4_5_0
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