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CVE-2017-4918

CRITICAL

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.

Published: Jun 8, 2017 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-77

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (14)

Vendor Product Version
vmware horizon_view 2.0
vmware horizon_view 2.1
vmware horizon_view 2.2
vmware horizon_view 2.3
vmware horizon_view 3.0
vmware horizon_view 3.1
vmware horizon_view 3.2
vmware horizon_view 3.3
vmware horizon_view 4.0.0
vmware horizon_view 4.0.1
vmware horizon_view 4.1.0
vmware horizon_view 4.2.0
vmware horizon_view 4.3.0
vmware horizon_view 4.4.0

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-qr5w-hhfh-gp9g

VMware Horizon View Client (2.x, 3.x and 4.x prior to 4.5.0) contains a command injection...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 4.86%

Top 9% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub