CVE-2019-5518: VMware ESXi

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201903001, 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001, 6.0 before ESXi600-201903001), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.4, 14.x before 14.1.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.0.3, 10.x before 10.1.6) contain an out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability in the virtual USB 1.1 UHCI (Universal Host Controller Interface). Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to have access to a virtual machine with a virtual USB controller present. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Affected products

• VMware ESXi: version 6.0 only; version 6.5 only; version 6.7 only
• VMware Fusion: from 10.0.0, before 10.1.6 (fixed in 10.1.6); from 11.0.0, before 11.0.3 (fixed in 11.0.3)
• VMware Workstation: from 14.0.0, before 14.1.7 (fixed in 14.1.7); from 15.0.0, before 15.0.4 (fixed in 15.0.4)

Published 2019-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.