CVE-2019-5539

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Publication date:
23/12/2019
Last modified:
21/07/2021

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 7.5.0 (including) 7.5.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 7.10.0 (including) 7.10.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 15.0.0 (including) 15.5.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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