CVE-2019-5540

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.012 · 67 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.15% (67th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1) contain an information disclosure vulnerability in vmnetdhcp. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker on a guest VM to disclose sensitive information by leaking memory from the host process.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4–7.7

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.17.7highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.1 · impact 4

v3.17.7highAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-401USprimaryCWE-200US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

VMware Workstation and Fusion≤ Workstation (15.x before 15.5.1) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.1)enisa_euvdEU
Broadcom Inc. VMWare Workstation15.0 → 15.5.1fstec_bduRU
Broadcom Inc. VMware Fusion11.0 → 11.5.1fstec_bduRU
vmware fusion11.0.0 → 11.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation15.0.0 → 15.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-11-20modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

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