VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6),…

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6), Fusion (11.x before 11.0.3 and 10.x before 10.1.6) updates address an out-of-bounds vulnerability with the vertex shader functionality. Exploitation of this issue requires an attacker to have access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM. The workaround for this issue involves disabling the 3D-acceleration feature. This feature is not enabled by default on ESXi and is enabled by default on Workstation and Fusion.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• Vertex shader out-of-bounds read vulnerability
• CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs

Affected products

• VMware · ESXi

  • affected 6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG
  • affected 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001

• VMware · Workstation

  • affected 15.x before 15.0.3
  • affected 14.x before 14.1.6

• VMware · Fusion

  • affected 11.x before 11.0.3
  • affected 10.x before 10.1.6

References (2)

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0006.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0762 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2019-5516](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-5516.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-5516)

Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 20:01 UTC.