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CVE-2017-4918

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-77 Command Injection
Publication date:
08/06/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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