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CVE-2025-22224

CISA KEV

CVSS 9.3 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 50.1% · Published 2025-03-04

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.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

Threats tracking this CVE

VMware ESXi 3-CVE Zero-Day Chain — VMCI Heap-Overflow + Sandbox Escape + HGFS Info Leak (VMSA-2025-0004, Active Ransomware) — CRITICAL

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-22224

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