CVE-2017-4946

Summary

CVECVE-2017-4946
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-05 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Vrealize Operations For Horizon All All All All
Application Vmware Vrealize Operations For Horizon All All All All
Application Vmware Vrealize Operations For Published Applications All All All All
Application Vmware Vrealize Operations For Published Applications All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple VMware Products Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VMware Horizon (V4H/V4PA) desktop agent privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2017-4946) :: GoSecure MISC gosecure.net
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and vRealize Operations for Published Applications Lets Local Users Obtain System Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VMSA-2018-0003 CONFIRM www.vmware.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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