CVE-2017-4936: VMware Horizon View

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Horizon View Client for Windows (4.x before 4.6.1) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in JPEG2000 parser in the TPView.dll. On Workstation, this may allow a guest to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS that runs Workstation. In the case of a Horizon View Client, this may allow a View desktop to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS that runs the Horizon View Client.

Affected products

• VMware Horizon View: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; …
• VMware Workstation: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5 only; version 12.5.1 only; …

Published 2017-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.