Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2019-5525

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) backend. A malicious user with normal user privileges on the guest machine may exploit this issue in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the Linux host where Workstation is installed.

  • Published: Jun 6, 2019
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2019-5525
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / workstation 15.0.0 15.1.0