CVE-2020-3991: VMware Horizon Client for Windows (5.x before 5.5.0) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to a file system access control issue during install time…

PriorityP427high7.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCNIHAH

EPSS

0.34%

26.6th percentile

VMware Horizon Client for Windows (5.x before 5.5.0) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to a file system access control issue during install time. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to overwrite certain admin privileged files through a symbolic link attack at install time. This will result into a denial-of-service condition on the machine where Horizon Client for Windows is installed.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	nifi	—	—
vmware	horizon_client	>= 5.0.0 < 5.5.0	5.5.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

vendor_apache6.1

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