VMware Workstation (15.x prior to 15.5.1) and Horizon View Agent (7.10.x prior to 7.10.1 and 7.5.x prior to 7.5.4) contain a DLL hijacking vulnerability due to insecure loading of a DLL by Cortado Thinprint. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to administrator on a Windows machine where Workstation or View Agent is installed.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2019-12-23T19:20:50

Updated: 2024-08-04T20:01:51.796Z

Reserved: 2019-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-5539

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-23T20:15:11.080

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:45:09.370

Link: CVE-2019-5539

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