CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5526

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-05-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-05-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) contains a DLL hijacking issue because some DLL files are improperly loaded by the application. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to administrator on a windows host where Workstation is installed.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References