CVE-2019-5540

Published Nov 20, 2019

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description
VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1) contain an information disclosure vulnerability in vmnetdhcp. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker on a guest VM to disclose sensitive information by leaking memory from the host process.
Source
security@vmware.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.7
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
3.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-401

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations