Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | - VMware Horizon Client update addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | VMSA-2018-0014 | First vendor Publication | 2018-05-29 |
| Vendor | VMware | Last vendor Modification | 2018-05-29 |
| 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.2 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| VMware Horizon Client privilege escalation vulnerability VMware Horizon Client contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insecure usage of SUID binary. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on a Linux machine where Horizon Client is installed. VMware would like to thank Nassim Abbaoui, pentester at OVH, for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6964 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-2018-0014.html |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2018-07-06 21:21:39 |
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| 2018-05-30 00:21:25 |
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| 2018-05-29 21:19:22 |
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