Is CVE-2019-5540 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2019-5540 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2019-5540?

CVE-2019-5540 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.7 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2019-5540?

CVE-2019-5540 has an EPSS score of 1.15% (63th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5540?

Upgrade fusion to 11.5.1 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2019-5540

HIGH

7.7

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-401Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)

How to fix

Remediation Available

fusionNVD

Affected:>= 11.0.0, < 11.5.1Fixed in:11.5.1CVE-2019-5540derived from NVD

workstationNVD

Affected:>= 15.0.0, < 15.5.1Fixed in:15.5.1CVE-2019-5540derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeChanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

1.15%probability of exploitation in 30 days

63rdpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 63% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

vmware.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2020-13934	High	7.5	64%	-	Fix
CVE-2016-6304	High	7.5	63%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-12265	Medium	5.3	55%	-	Fix
CVE-2001-0136	Medium	5.0	45%	-	-
CVE-2016-4232	High	7.5	36%	-	-
CVE-2001-0543	Medium	5.0	21%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.