CVE-2019-5542 Denial of service in Workstation and Fusion
Attackers with normal user privileges can cause a denial-of-service condition on their own virtual machine via the RPC handler.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-5542?
CVE-2019-5542 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 20 Nov 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5542?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Vmware Fusion, Vmware Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2019-5542?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5542 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-2019-5542 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5542 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Fusion
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qf8x-4p92-75q9.