CVE-2018-6971: VMware Horizon View Agents

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

VMware Horizon View Agents (7.x.x before 7.5.1) contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during installation (including silent installations). Successful exploitation of this issue may allow low privileged users access to the credentials specified during the Horizon View Agent installation.

Affected products

• VMware Horizon View Agents: from 7.0.0, before 7.5.1 (fixed in 7.5.1)

Published 2018-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.