CVE-2019-5539: 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…

PriorityP335high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.43%

34.6th percentile

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	horizon_view_agent	—	—
vmware	horizon_view_agent	—	—
vmware	horizon_view_agent	>= 7.10.0 < 7.10.1	7.10.1
vmware	horizon_view_agent	>= 7.5.0 < 7.5.4	7.5.4
vmware	vmware_workstation	—	—
vmware	workstation	>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.1	15.5.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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