{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5525 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2019-5525 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 6 Jun 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-5525 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-5525 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Vmware Workstation, published on 6 Jun 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5525 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Workstation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5525/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5525/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-5525","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5525/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-5525","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-r6q4-gxv3-v7q7"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware Workstation","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free in the ALSA backend allows guest users to execute code on the Linux host, requiring an upgrade to VMware Workstation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"workstation","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) backend. A malicious user with normal user privileges on the guest machine may exploit this issue in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the Linux host where Workstation is installed.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Use after free in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5525","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:workstation","products":["vmware:workstation"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5526"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion","id":"CVE-2019-5524"},"products":["VMware Workstation"],"published":"2019-06-06","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Path traversal in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5511","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5512","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-09"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Path traversal in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2023-20854","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-03"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in VMware Workstation","id":"CVE-2019-5526","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-05-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Other in Workstation","id":"CVE-2017-4939","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-11-17"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-1069","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-05-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["VMware"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the ALSA backend allows guest users to execute code on the Linux host, requiring an upgrade to VMware Workstation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5525/"}