CVE-2017-4897: VMware Horizon DaaS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Horizon DaaS before 7.0.0 contains a vulnerability that exists due to insufficient validation of data. An attacker may exploit this issue by tricking DaaS client users into connecting to a malicious server and sharing all their drives and devices. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a victim to download a specially crafted RDP file through DaaS client by clicking on a malicious link.

Affected products

• VMware Horizon DaaS: up to and including 6.1.6

Published 2017-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.