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CVE-2025-22226

CISA KEV

CVSS 7.1 (HIGH) · EPSS 3.5% · Published 2025-03-04

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

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-2025-22226

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