Vulnerabilites related to VMware - Telco Cloud Infrastructure
cve-2025-22224
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-04 11:56
Modified
2025-04-03 14:39
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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▼ | VMware | ESXi |
Version: 8.0 < ESXi80U3d-24585383 Version: 8.0 < ESXi80U2d-24585300 Version: 7.0 < ESXi70U3s-24585291 |
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