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CVE-2017-4946
The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this…
High7.8EPSS 0.50%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
Description
The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents (6.x before 6.5.1) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Privilege escalation vulnerability
- CWE-863 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
VMware · vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H)
- affected 6.x before 6.5.1
VMware · vRealize Operations for Published Applications (V4PA)
- affected 6.x before 6.5.1
References (4)
- http://gosecure.net/2018/01/10/vmware-horizon-v4h-v4pa-desktop-agent-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2017-4946/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 102441 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1040136 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .