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.

published 2019-11-20 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-15117

cvss: 7.7; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

vmware fusion 11.5.1
vmware workstation 15.5.1

vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0021.html advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

VMware Workstation and Fusion

Classification

Technology feeds

VMware rss critical rss

References

vmware.com /security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0021.html
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-5542
NVD CVE-2019-5542

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