The VMware Horizon View Agent installed on the remote host is 7.x prior to 7.5.4, 7.10.1, or 7.11.0. It is, therefore, affected by a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of a DLL by Cortado Thinprint. An authenticated, local attacker with normal user privileges can exploit this to escalate their privileges to administrator on a Windows machine where View Agent is installed.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(132753);
script_version("1.3");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/13");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-5539");
script_xref(name:"VMSA", value:"2019-0023");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2020-B-0001");
script_name(english:"VMware Horizon View Agent 7.x < 7.5.4 / 7.10.1 / 7.11.0 Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2019-0023)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host has a virtual desktop agent installed that is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The VMware Horizon View Agent installed on the remote host is 7.x prior to 7.5.4, 7.10.1, or 7.11.0. It is, therefore,
affected by a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of a DLL by Cortado Thinprint. An authenticated,
local attacker with normal user privileges can exploit this to escalate their privileges to administrator on a Windows
machine where View Agent is installed.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0023.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to VMware Horizon View Agent 7.5.4, 7.10.1, 7.11.0 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-5539");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:vmware:horizon_view_agent");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("vmware_view_agent_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/VMware View Agent");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf.inc');
app = 'VMware View Agent';
app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, win_local:TRUE);
constraints = [
{ 'min_version': '7.0', 'fixed_version' : '7.5.4' },
{ 'min_version': '7.6', 'fixed_version' : '7.10.1' }
];
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version |
---|---|---|
vmware | horizon_view_agent |