CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-5511

Published: Apr 09, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Workstation Vmware 14.0.0 (including) 14.1.6 (excluding)
Workstation Vmware 15.0.0 (including) 15.0.3 (excluding)

References