Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5539

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-12-23 19:20:50
Last updated 2024-08-04 20:01:51
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

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.