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 ?
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U3d-24585383
Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U2d-24585300
Version: 7.0   < ESXi70U3s-24585291
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   VMware Workstation Version: 17.x   < 17.6.3
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   VMware VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 5.x, 4.5.x
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   VMware Telco Cloud Platform Version: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
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   VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Version: 3.x, 2.x
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