github - ghsa-h593-cg7r-4hp4

ghsa-h593-cg7r-4hp4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-05-20 15:30

Modified

2025-05-20 15:30

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

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  "id": "GHSA-h593-cg7r-4hp4",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T15:30:41Z",
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CVE-2025-41227 (GCVE-0-2025-41227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-05-20 14:24

Modified

2025-06-24 07:13

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Summary

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

References

URL

Tags

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 8.0 < ESXi80U3se-24659227
Version: 7.0 < ESXi70U3sv-24723868

	VMware	Cloud Foundation	Version: 5.x, 4.5.x
	VMware	Telco Cloud Platform	Version: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
	VMware	Telco Cloud Infrastructure	Version: 3.x, 2.x
	VMware	Workstation	Version: 17.x < 17.6.3
	VMware	Fusion	Version: 13.x < 13.6.3

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