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ghsa-8g5g-pp3h-rchw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:22

Modified

2022-05-13 01:22

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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cve-2019-5511

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-04-09 19:29

Modified

2024-08-04 20:01

Severity ?

Summary

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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0002.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	VMware Workstation

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