CVE-2015-3650: VMware Horizon View Client

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

vmware-vmx.exe in VMware Workstation 7.x through 10.x before 10.0.7 and 11.x before 11.1.1, VMware Player 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.7 and 7.x before 7.1.1, and VMware Horizon Client 5.x local-mode before 5.4.2 on Windows does not provide a valid DACL pointer during the setup of the vprintproxy.exe process, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges by injecting a thread.

Affected products

• VMware Horizon View Client: version 5.4 only; version 5.4.1 only
• VMware Player: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 6.0 only; …
• VMware Workstation: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.0.5 only; …

Published 2015-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.