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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0002) (CVE-2019-5512)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 18, 2019
Added
Mar 18, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3, 14.x before 14.1.6) running on Windows does not handle COM classes appropriately. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow hijacking of COM classes used by the VMX process, on a Windows host, leading to elevation of privilege.

Solutions

vmware-workstation-upgrade-14_1_6vmware-workstation-upgrade-15_0_3
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