Local privilege escalation through undisclosed mechanism
Published Apr 16, 2025 · Updated Apr 17, 2025
Local privilege escalation in Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows 2412 and earlier allows local users to gain elevated privileges. Omnissa has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that mishandles privileges, so the underlying mechanism is not public. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access to a Windows system with the affected client installed and can compromise system confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Summary
What happened
Local privilege escalation in Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows 2412 and earlier allows local users to gain elevated privileges. Omnissa has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that mishandles privileges, so the underlying mechanism is not public. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access to a Windows system with the affected client installed and can compromise system confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-25230
- Published
- Apr 16, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Omnissa
- Product
- Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows 2412 or earlier
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What is affected?
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