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Rewterz penetration testing services help organizations determine if a cyber attacker can gain access to their critical assets while giving them detailed insights of the overall business impact of a cyber attack.
Before Rewterz got its start, the market was in dire need of a specialized and dedicated information security company. It was nearly impossible for businesses to find a trustworthy provider that could truly cover all of their bases. We wanted to meet this need, giving companies across the globe a chance to get ahead while knowing that their data is in good hands.
Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMWare Workstation Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
An error related to handling paths when creating the VMX process can be exploited to gain otherwise restricted privileges.
An error related to handling COM classes can be exploited to gain otherwise restricted privileges.
The CVEs assigned to these vulnerabilities are:
CVE-2019-5511 & CVE-2019-5512
Impact
Privilege Escalation
Affected products
VMware Workstation Player 14.x
Remediation
Update to version 14.1.6.