VMware Fusion < 11.5.0 Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0019)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130454

Synopsis

A virtualization application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by denial of service

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201908101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201910401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.0) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.0) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VM. Exploitation of this issue require an attacker to have access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled. It is not enabled by default on ESXi and is enabled by default on Workstation and Fusion.

Solution

Update to VMware Fusion version 11.5.0, or later.

See Also

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0019.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130454

File Name: macosx_fusion_vmsa_2019_0019.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 11/1/2019

Updated: 11/8/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5536

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:vmware:fusion

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, installed_sw/VMware Fusion

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5536

IAVA: 2019-A-0403

VMSA: 2019-0019