CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-22224
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability — VMware ESXi and Workstation
VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
- Added to KEV
- 2025-03-04
- Remediation due
- 2025-03-25
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- 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.
- Notes
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22224
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-03-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• vmware esxi 7.0
• vmware esxi 8.0
• vmware cloud foundation
• vmware telco cloud infrastructure 2.2
• vmware telco cloud infrastructure 2.5
• vmware telco cloud infrastructure 2.7
• vmware telco cloud infrastructure 3.0
• vmware telco cloud platform 2.0
• vmware telco cloud platform 2.5
• vmware telco cloud platform 2.7
• vmware telco cloud platform 3.0
• vmware telco cloud platform 4.0
• vmware telco cloud platform 4.0.1
• vmware telco cloud platform 5.0
• vmware workstation (>= 17.0 < 17.6.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness