Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in VMware Fusion and Horizon Client Products
CVE-2020-3950

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor: Vmware
Status: Vmware Fusion, Vmware Remote Console For Mac And Horizon Client For Mac
Vendor: CVE Published:; 17 March 2020

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🦅 CISA Reported

Summary

VMware Fusion, VMware Remote Console for Mac, and Horizon Client for Mac are susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability caused by improper handling of setuid binaries. An attacker with standard user privileges could exploit this vulnerability to elevate their permissions, potentially gaining root access to the victims' systems where these products are installed. This poses a significant security risk for users relying on these applications to run their virtualized environments.

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Affected Version(s)

VMware Fusion, VMware Remote Console for Mac and Horizon Client for Mac VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for Mac (5.x and prior before 5.4.0)