VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4918

critical
Published 2017-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwarehorizon_view2.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view2.1
vmware vmwarehorizon_view2.2
vmware vmwarehorizon_view2.3
vmware vmwarehorizon_view3.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view3.1
vmware vmwarehorizon_view3.2
vmware vmwarehorizon_view3.3
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.0.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.0.1
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.1.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.2.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.3.0
vmware vmwarehorizon_view4.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-77

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.