Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-5511
high
Description
VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3, 14.x before 14.1.6) running on Windows does not handle paths appropriately. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow the path to the VMX executable, on a Windows host, to be hijacked by a non-administrator leading to elevation of privilege.
References
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0002.html