CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5539

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-12-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-12-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x prior to 15.5.1) and Horizon View Agent (7.10.x prior to 7.10.1 and 7.5.x prior to 7.5.4) contain a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of a DLL by Cortado Thinprint. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to administrator on a Windows machine where Workstation or View Agent is installed.

Affected configurations

• vmware horizon view agent (>= 7.5.0 < 7.5.4) • vmware horizon view agent (>= 7.10.0 < 7.10.1) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References