GSD-2017-4946
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21Details
The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM.
Aliases
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