CVE-2018-6964

published 2018-05-29

CVE-2018-6964: VMware Horizon Client for Linux (4.x before 4.8.0 and prior) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insecure usage of SUID binary…

Priority P3 37 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

VMware Horizon Client for Linux (4.x before 4.8.0 and prior) 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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	horizon_client	>= 4.0.0 < 4.8.0	4.8.0
vmware	horizon_client_for_linux	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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