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CVE-2025-41238 (GCVE-0-2025-41238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-15 18:34 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:50
VLAI
Title
PVSCSI heap-overflow vulnerability
Summary
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap-overflow vulnerability in the PVSCSI (Paravirtualized SCSI) controller 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with configurations that are unsupported. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-16 03:56 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware ESXi Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3f-24784735 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2e-24789317 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3w-24784741 (custom)
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VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
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VMware Workstation Affected: 17.x , < 17.6.4 (custom)
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VMware Fusion Affected: 13.x , < 13.6.4 (custom)
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VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x (custom)
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VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x, 2.x
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Date Public
2025-07-15 03:30
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