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CVE-2017-4946

Published: Jan 5, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
VMware	vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H)	affected `6.x before 6.5.1`
VMware	vRealize Operations for Published Applications (V4PA)	affected `6.x before 6.5.1`

References

http://gosecure.net/2018/01/10/vmware-horizon-v4h-v4pa-desktop-agent-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2017-4946/

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https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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