# CVE-2025-62624 — AMD ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products

> As of 2026-05-14, CVE-2025-62624 is a High-severity (band derived from the CVSS v4.0 score, not stated by the CNA) vulnerability in AMD ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products, CVSS v4.0 8.8, EPSS 0.1% (1.0th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2025-62624, most recently “AMD Ionic Cloud Driver Vulnerabilities Affecting VMware ESX (CVE-2025-62623, CVE-2025-62624, CVE-2025-62627)”.

**Last updated:** 2026-05-14

## What is CVE-2025-62624?

A heap-based buffer overflow in the ionic cloud driver for VMware ESXi could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

The record classifies CVE-2025-62624 under weakness class [CWE-122](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cwe/CWE-122). 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 165 days ago.

## Severity and exploitation probability

- **CVSS v4.0 base score:** 8.8 — High (derived from score) (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **EPSS (FIRST):** 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.0% of all scored CVEs
- **CISA KEV:** Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- **Threadlinqs priority:** 4.4/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- **Published:** 2026-05-13, last modified 2026-05-14

## Is CVE-2025-62624 being exploited?

It currently carries a trending score of 5 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

## Affected products and versions

- [AMD](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/vendors/amd): ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products

## How to fix CVE-2025-62624

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-62624 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

## Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-62624

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-62624, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

- [AMD Ionic Cloud Driver Vulnerabilities Affecting VMware ESX (CVE-2025-62623, CVE-2025-62624, CVE-2025-62627)](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-2146) — HIGH · 2026-08-25

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-10.

**Other references**

- [amd.com](https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-2001.html)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2025-62624
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2025-62624 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp