VMSA-2019-0003

VMware Horizon update addresses Connection Server information disclosure vulnerability

1. Summary

VMware Horizon update addresses Connection Server information disclosure vulnerability

2. Relevant Products

• VMware Horizon

3. Problem Description

Connection Server Information disclosure vulnerability

The VMware Horizon Connection Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow disclosure of internal domain names, the Connection Server’s internal name, or the gateway’s internal IP address.
      
VMware would like to thank Cory Mathews of Critical Start and HD Moore of Atredis Partners for independently reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2019-5513 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.

* See KB52845 for information relating to Horizon 7 Extended Service Branches (ESB) and Current Releases (CR).

‡ KB67424 details how to configure Horizon Connection Server version 7.8 Domain settings to work with Horizon Clients earlier than version 5.0.

† KB67401 details how to enable new user authentication security features in Horizon 7 Version 7.5.2 and Horizon 6 version 6.2.8.

4. Solution

Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.

VMware Horizon 7 version 7.8
Downloads and Documentation: 

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon/7_8

VMware Horizon 7 version 7.5.2
Downloads and Documentation: 

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon/7_5

VMware Horizon 6 version 6.2.8 
Downloads and Documentation:  
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon/6_2

5. References
 

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5513

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52845
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67424
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67401

6. Change log

2019-03-14: VMSA-2019-0003

Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware Horizon 7.8 on 2019-03-14.

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