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March 18, 2019
Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMWare Workstation Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
An error related to handling paths when creating the VMX process can be exploited to gain otherwise restricted privileges.
An error related to handling COM classes can be exploited to gain otherwise restricted privileges.
The CVEs assigned to these vulnerabilities are:
CVE-2019-5511 & CVE-2019-5512
Impact
Privilege Escalation
Affected products
VMware Workstation Player 14.x
Remediation
Update to version 14.1.6.
