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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-3991 – VMware Horizon Client for Windows

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2020-3991

VMware Horizon Client for Windows contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to a file system access control issue during install time. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to overwrite certain admin privileged files through a symbolic link attack at install time. This will result into a denial-of-service condition on the machine where Horizon Client for Windows is installed.

Impact

Denial of service

Affected Vendors

VMware

Affected Products

Horizon Client for Windows

Remediation

Refer to vendor advisory for the complete list of affected products and their respective patches.

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0022.html

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