CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5511

8.8 HIGH Published 2019-04-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation (>= 14.0.0 < 14.1.6) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.3)

References