VMware Workstation

CVE-2019-5511
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.37 % · percentile 31 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Modified

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3, 14.x before 14.1.6) running on Windows does not handle paths appropriately. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow the path to the VMX executable, on a Windows host, to be hijacked by a non-administrator leading to elevation of privilege.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware Workstationaffected VMware Workstation 15.x prior to 15.0.3, 14.x before 14.1.6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD