VMSA-2018-0010
Horizon DaaS update addresses a broken authentication issue
VMware Security Advisory
1. Summary
Horizon DaaS update addresses a broken authentication issue
2. Relevant Products
VMware Horizon DaaS
3. Problem Description
Broken authentication issue in Horizon DaaS
Horizon DaaS contains a broken authentication vulnerability that may allow an attacker to bypass two-factor authentication.
Note: In order to exploit this issue, an attacker must have a legitimate account on Horizon DaaS.
VMware would like to thank Peter Ivezaj, President - Digital Upkeep for reporting this issue to us.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6960 to this issue.
Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.
VMware Product
Product Version
Running on
Severity
Replace with/ Apply Patch
Mitigation/ Workaround
4. Solution
Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.
VMware Horizon DaaS
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info?slug=desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_daas/8_0
Documentation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-DaaS/index.html
6. Change log
2018-04-19 VMSA-2018-0010 Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware Horizon DaaS 8.0.0 on 2018-04-19.
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