Executive Summary

Summary
Title - Horizon View Client update addresses a command injection vulnerability
Informations
Name VMSA-2017-0011 First vendor Publication 2017-06-08
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2017-06-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Horizon View Client command injection vulnerability

VMware Horizon View Client contains a command injection issue 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.

VMware would like to thank Florian Bogner from Kapsch BusinessCom AG for reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4918 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Original Source

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

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-77 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-06-16 Name : A desktop virtualization application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS ...
File : macosx_vmware_horizon_view_client_vmsa_2017_0011.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-21 21:24:10
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-17 13:23:43
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-09 00:24:19
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-08 21:19:41
  • First insertion