What is CVE-2025-62627?
An untrusted pointer dereference in the ionic cloud driver for VMWare ESXi could allow an attacker with an unprivileged VM to read kernel memory or co-located guest VM memory, potentially resulting in loss of confidentiality or availability.
The record classifies CVE-2025-62627 under weakness class CWE-822. 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
- 7.2 — High (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:H/SC:H/SI:L/SA:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.0% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 6.3/10 — 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-2025-62627 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 22 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- AMD: ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products
How to fix CVE-2025-62627
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-62627 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-2025-62627
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-62627, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .