CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-22226
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability — VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with administrative privileges to a virtual machine to leak memory from the vmx process.
- 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-2025-22226
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-03-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.
Affected configurations
• vmware esxi 7.0
• vmware esxi 8.0
• vmware cloud foundation
• vmware fusion (>= 13.0.0 < 13.6.3)
• 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-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness