CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-4946
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM.
Affected configurations
• vmware vrealize operations for horizon (>= 6.0 < 6.5.1)
• vmware vrealize operations for published applications (>= 6.1.0 < 6.5.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- http://gosecure.net/2018/01/10/vmware-horizon-v4h-v4pa-desktop-agent-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2017-4946/ gosecure.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102441 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040136 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://gosecure.net/2018/01/10/vmware-horizon-v4h-v4pa-desktop-agent-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2017-4946/ gosecure.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102441 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040136 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html Patch, Vendor Advisory