CVE-2019-5519 Race condition in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion

What is CVE-2019-5519?

CVE-2019-5519 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Esxi, published on 1 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) 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.

Weakness: CWE-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5519?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Vmware Esxi, Vmware Fusion, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5519?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5519 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-5519 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5519 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esxi

• CVE-2026-41709 Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Exploited Low 2.7
• CVE-2019-5521 Information disclosure in VMware ESXi Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-22252 Use-after-free vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2020-3955 Cross-site scripting in ESXi Critical 9.3
• CVE-2010-4573 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.3

All Vmware Esxi vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-93m3-v38w-pv5q.