vulnerability

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0018) (CVE-2018-6971)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 25, 2018
Added
Aug 7, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

VMware Horizon View Agents (7.x.x before 7.5.1) contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during installation (including silent installations). Successful exploitation of this issue may allow low privileged users access to the credentials specified during the Horizon View Agent installation.

Solution

vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_2
Title
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