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CVE-2025-22224

critical · 9.3Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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

Added 2025-03-04Remediation due 2025-03-25

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

9.3
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
74th
EPSS percentile
2025-03-04
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-367

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi7.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0
vmwareesxi8.0

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References

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