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CVE-2025-41227

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CVE-2025-41227

Published: May 20, 2025

Modified: Jun 24, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.5

MEDIUM

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

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

VMware

Workstation

affected
17.x - < 17.6.3

VMware

Fusion

affected
13.x - < 13.6.3

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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