CVE-2019-5541: VMware Fusion

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1.4% 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 out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the e1000e virtual network adapter. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to code execution on the host from the guest or may allow attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.

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.