CVE-2020-3950

VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for Mac (5.x and prior before 5.4.0) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper use of setuid binaries. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to root on the system where Fusion, VMRC or Horizon Client is installed.

Recent assessments:

h00die at March 24, 2020 11:17pm UTC reported:

This vulnerability is trivial to exploit.
The “Open VMware USB Arbitrator Service” binary can be run (through a hard link) from any location, including attacker controlled. Next, when the Service binary is run, which any user can do, it automatically runs ../../../Contents/Library/services/VMware USB Arbitrator Service. By ensuring the hard link is 3 levels deep from VMware USB Arbitrator Service, we’re able to get code execution. When our payload (VMware USB Arbitrator Service) is run, it’s done so with an EUID of 0, thus priv escalating. This is trivial to exploit since we’re not overwriting any files, or calling anything abnormal, and easy to clean-up. There is NO chance of crashing the system either.

Assessed Attacker Value: 4
Assessed Attacker Value: 4Assessed Attacker Value: 5