CVE-2019-5542

HighCVSS 7.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.7/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 20, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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