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CVE-2025-41226

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CVE-2025-41226

Published: May 20, 2025

Modified: Jun 24, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.8

MEDIUM

Description

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

VendorProductVersions

VMware

ESXi

affected
8.0 - < ESXi80U3se-24659227
affected
7.0 - < ESXi70U3sv-24723868

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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