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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-5543

CVE-2019-5543

Description

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.

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