CVE-2019-5539

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 23, 2019
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 7, 2019

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware WorkstationVMware	15.x prior to 15.5.1Affected
Horizon View AgentVMware	7.10.x prior to 7.10.1Affected 7.5.x prior 7.5.4Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0023.html

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