CVE-2017-4918: VMware Horizon View

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Horizon View Client (2.x, 3.x and 4.x prior to 4.5.0) contains a command injection vulnerability in the service startup script. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on the Mac OSX system where the client is installed.

Affected products

• VMware Horizon View: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; …

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.