CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5514

8.8 HIGH Published 2019-04-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-306

Description

VMware VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.0.3) contains a security vulnerability due to certain unauthenticated APIs accessible through a web socket. An attacker may exploit this issue by tricking the host user to execute a JavaScript to perform unauthorized functions on the guest machine where VMware Tools is installed. This may further be exploited to execute commands on the guest machines.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 11.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

References