CVE-2019-5511: VMware Workstation

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: from 14.0.0, before 14.1.6 (fixed in 14.1.6); from 15.0.0, before 15.0.3 (fixed in 15.0.3)

Published 2019-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.