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June 11, 2020

Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-3961 – VMware Horizon Client for Windows update privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

VMware Horizon Client for Windows contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to folder permission configuration and unsafe loading of libraries. A local user on the system where the software is installed may exploit this issue to run commands as any user.

Impact

Privilege escalation

Affected Vendors

VMware

Affected Products

VMware Horizon Client for Windows

Remediation

Refer to vendor’s advisory for the list of upgraded patches.

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0013.html

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