Vulnerability Details 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 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 43.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 4.4
References
Products affected by CVE-2019-5539
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:7.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:7.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:7.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:7.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_view_agent:7.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.5.0
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-