CVE-2022-22962

HIGH

VMware Horizon < 2203 - Local Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware Horizon Agent for Linux (prior to 22.x) contains a local privilege escalation as a user is able to change the default shared folder location due to a vulnerable symbolic link. Successful exploitation can result in linking to a root owned file.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
vmware/horizon < 2203
Published Apr 11, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026