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CVE-2025-22224

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CVE-2025-22224

Published: Mar 4, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.3

CRITICAL

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.

VendorProductVersions

VMware

ESXi

affected
8.0 - < ESXi80U3d-24585383
affected
8.0 - < ESXi80U2d-24585300
affected
7.0 - < ESXi70U3s-24585291

VMware

Workstation

affected
17.x - < 17.6.3

VMware

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

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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