Vulnerabilites related to VMware - Horizon View Client for Mac
cve-2017-4918
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-08 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:47
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware Horizon View Client for Mac Version: 2.x
Version: 3.x
Version: 4.x prior to 4.5.0
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