cve-2025-22226
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-04 11:56
Modified
2025-03-05 04:55
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS score ?
8.35% (0.91472)
Summary
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a ESXi Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U3d-24585383
Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U2d-24585300
Version: 7.0   < ESXi70U3s-24585291
   n/a VMware Workstation Version: 17.x   < 17.6.3
   n/a VMware Fusion Version: 13.x   < 13.6.3
   n/a VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 5.x, 4.5.x
   n/a VMware Telco Cloud Platform Version: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
   n/a VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Version: 3.x, 2.x
CISA Known exploited vulnerability
Data from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2025-03-04

Due date: 2025-03-25

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22226

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