Privilege escalation in VMware Horizon - CVE-2018-6964
Published: May 29, 2018 / Updated: May 30, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13046
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6964
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in VMware Horizon Client for Linux due to an insecure set user id (setuid) binary A local attacker can gain root privileges.
Affected software
VMware Horizon
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6964
Update to version 4.8.0.