CVE-2018-6964

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 29, 2018
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Feb 14, 2018

Description

VMware Horizon Client for Linux (4.x before 4.8.0 and prior) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insecure usage of SUID binary. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on a Linux machine where Horizon Client is installed.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Horizon Client for LinuxVMware	4.x before 4.8.0 and priorAffected

References

1040989vdb-entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0014.html
104315vdb-entry

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