{ "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2020-3991", "ASSIGNER": "security@vmware.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "VMware Horizon Client for Windows", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "VMware Horizon Client for Windows (5.x before 5.5.0)" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Denial-of-service vulnerability" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0022.html", "url": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0022.html" } ] }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "VMware Horizon Client for Windows (5.x before 5.5.0) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to a file system access control issue during install time. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to overwrite certain admin privileged files through a symbolic link attack at install time. This will result into a denial-of-service condition on the machine where Horizon Client for Windows is installed." } ] } }