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Tracker / CVE-2019-5543

CVE-2019-5543

High 7.8

For VMware Horizon Client for Windows (5.x and prior before 5.3.0), VMware Remote Console for Windows (10.x before 11.0.0), VMware Workstation for Windows (15.x before 15.5.2) the folder containing configuration files for the VMware USB arbitration service was found to be writable by all users. A local user on the system where the software is installed may exploit this issue to run commands as any user.

Affected products and versions

vmware horizon_client · 5.0.0 → 5.3.0
vmware remote_console · 10.0.0 → 11.0.0
vmware workstation · 15.0.0 → 15.5.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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