THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-4918
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2017-4918

Horizon View vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Vmware
Affected product
Horizon View
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2017-06-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-4918

  • Confirm whether Vmware Horizon View is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-4918.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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