CVE-2018-6971

lowpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.42% (36th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

VMware Horizon View Agents (7.x.x before 7.5.1) contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during installation (including silent installations). Successful exploitation of this issue may allow low privileged users access to the credentials specified during the Horizon View Agent installation.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 2.1–7.8

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-532USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

VMware Horizon View Agent≤ 7.x.x before 7.5.1enisa_euvdEU
vmware horizon view agents7.0.0 → 7.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agents:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-25modified 2026-06-17

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