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ghsa-w5gh-72fc-wfgf

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Published

2022-05-13 01:53

Modified

2022-05-13 01:53

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2018-6964 (GCVE-0-2018-6964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-05-29 20:00

Modified

2024-09-17 01:11

Severity ?

CWE

Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Summary

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.

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	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0014.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104315	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	VMware	Horizon Client for Linux	Version: 4.x before 4.8.0 and prior

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