Vulnerability CVE-2018-6971


Published: 2018-07-25

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-532

(Information Exposure Through Log Files)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041358
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html

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