bugtraq - CVE-2017-4918: Code Injection in VMware Horizon’s macOS Client

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:30:22 +0200
From: Florian Bogner <florian@...ner.sh>
To: BugTraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: CVE-2017-4918: Code Injection in VMware Horizon’s macOS Client

CVE-2017-4918: Code Injection in VMware Horizon’s macOS Client

Metadata
===================================================
Release Date: 10-July-2017
Author: Florian Bogner // https://bogner.sh
Affected product: VMware Horizon‘s macOS Client
Fixed in: Version 4.5
Tested on: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
CVE:  CVE-2017-4918
URL: https://bogner.sh/2017/07/cve-2017-4918-code-injection-in-vmware-horizons-macos-client/
Vulnerability Status: Fixed

Product Description
===================================================
VMware Horizon 7 is the leading platform for virtual desktops and applications.
Provide end users access to all of their virtual desktops, applications, and online services through a single digital workspace.

Vulnerability Description
===================================================
An issue within a shell script of VMware Horizon's macOS client could be abused to load arbitrary kernel extensions. In detail, this was possible because a user modifiable environment variable was used to build the command line for a highly privileged command.

Further technical details can be found on my blog: https://bogner.sh/2017/07/cve-2017-4918-code-injection-in-vmware-horizons-macos-client/

Suggested Solution
===================================================
Update to the latest version (fixed in 4.5)

Disclosure Timeline
===================================================
21-04-2017: The issues has been documented and reported
24-04-2017: VMware started investigating
06-06-2017: Fix ready
08-06-2017: Updated Horizon version 4.5 alongside security advisory VMSA-2017-0011 released

Florian Bogner

eMail: florian@...ner.sh
Web: http://www.bogner.sh
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=368904276
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Florian_Bogner9

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (802 bytes)