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CVE-2025-22225

high · 8.2Actively 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 contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.

8.2
CVSS
1.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
61st
EPSS percentile
2025-03-04
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-787CWE-123

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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