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VMware Product Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 5 Aug 2015 Release Date: 13 Jul 2015 3790 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

A vulnerability has been identified in VMware Workstation, Player and Horizon View Client for Windows, which can allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause privilege escalation.


Impact

  • Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

  • VMware Workstation for Windows 10.x prior to version 10.0.7
  • VMware Workstation for Windows 11.x prior to version 11.1.1 
  • VMware Player for Windows 7.x prior to version 7.1.1 
  • VMware Player for Windows 6.x prior to version 6.0.7 
  • VMware Horizon Client for Windows (with Local Mode Option) prior to version 5.4.2

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  • The vendor has issued a fix

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