High 8.8Published Oct 10, 2019

CVE-2019-5527ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, VMRC and Horizon Client contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the virtual sound device.

Updated under an hour ago (Nov 2, 2026, 12:23 AM ET)

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ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, VMRC and Horizon Client contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the virtual sound device. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.5.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-416
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

vmware horizon vmware:horizon	before 5.2.0; before 5.2.0; before 5.2.0	NVD
vmware remote_console vmware:remote_console	from 10.0.0 before 10.0.5; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.5	NVD
vmware workstation vmware:workstation	from 15.0.0 before 15.5.0	NVD
vmware fusion vmware:fusion	from 11.0.0 before 11.5.0	NVD
vmware esxi vmware:esxi	6.0; 6.0; 6.0; 6.0; 6.0; 6.0; 6.0; 6.0; and 171 more ranges	NVD

References

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0014.html	vendor-advisory

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