CVE-2019-5540: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: from 11.0.0, before 11.5.1 (fixed in 11.5.1)
• VMware Workstation: from 15.0.0, before 15.5.1 (fixed in 15.5.1)

Published 2019-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.