CVE-2025-41226 (GCVE-0-2025-41226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 14:24 – Updated: 2025-06-24 07:12
VLAI
Title
Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Summary
VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3se-24659227 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 (custom)
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VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
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VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
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VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x, 2.x
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Date Public
2025-05-20 11:30
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