VMware Workstation (15.x prior to 15.5.1) and Horizon View Agent (7.10.x prior to 7.10.1 and 7.5.x prior to 7.5.4) contain a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of a DLL by Cortado Thinprint. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to administrator on a Windows machine where Workstation or View Agent is installed.

Related CVEs

CVE-2019-5539

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-r6qv-pq43-h5wg

Published

May 24, 2022 5:04 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:04 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 17, 2025 6:25 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.