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GHSA-JFJV-VW9W-9W8V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-20 15:30 – Updated: 2025-05-20 15:30

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 14:24 – Updated: 2025-06-24 07:12

Title

Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Summary

Severity

6.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-20 16:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	ESXi	Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3se-24659227 (custom) Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 (custom)
VMware	Cloud Foundation	Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Platform	Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Infrastructure	Affected: 3.x, 2.x

Date Public

2025-05-20 11:30

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