What is CVE-2025-22224?
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.
The record classifies CVE-2025-22224 under weakness class CWE-367. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 56 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 580 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 9.3 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 50.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.8% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2025-03-04, federal remediation deadline 2025-03-25
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2025-03-04, last modified 2025-10-30
Is CVE-2025-22224 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2025-22224 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-04, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2025-03-25 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 39 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Vmware: Esxi 7.0, Esxi 8.0, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Infrastructure 2.2, Telco Cloud Infrastructure 2.5, Telco Cloud Infrastructure 2.7, Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.0, Telco Cloud Platform 2.0, Telco Cloud Platform 2.5, Telco Cloud Platform 2.7, Telco Cloud Platform 3.0, Telco Cloud Platform 4.0, Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1, Telco Cloud Platform 5.0, Workstation
Showing 15 of 56 recorded product entries.
How to fix CVE-2025-22224
Vendor advisory: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390. Because CVE-2025-22224 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2025-03-25. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-22224
2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2025-22224, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.