vulnerability

VMware Horizon Client: CVE-2020-3961 VMware Horizon Client for Windows privilege escalation vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0013)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 15, 2020
Added
May 24, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

VMware Horizon Client for Windows (prior to 5.4.3) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to folder permission configuration and unsafe loading of libraries. A local user on the system where the software is installed may exploit this issue to run commands as any user.

Solution

vmware-horizon-client-upgrade-5_4_3
Title
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