CVE-2019-5535 Denial of service in VMware Workstation and Fusion

What is CVE-2019-5535?

CVE-2019-5535 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 10 Oct 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

VMware Workstation and Fusion contain a network denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper handling of certain IPv6 packets. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 4.7.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5535?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Vmware Fusion, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5535?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5535 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-5535 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5535 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Fusion

• CVE-2020-3950 VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-4901 Memory corruption in Fusion Pro / Fusion Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-22267 Use after free in VMware Fusion Critical 9.3
• CVE-2019-5541 Memory corruption in Workstation and Fusion Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-38811 Code-execution vulnerability High 8.8

All Vmware Fusion vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-wpc3-hcvp-r9g8.