fkie_cve-2025-22224
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-03-04 12:15
Modified
2025-03-05 16:18
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
security@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware cloud_foundation -
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.2
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.5
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.7
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 3.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.5
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.7
vmware telco_cloud_platform 3.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0.1
vmware telco_cloud_platform 5.0
vmware workstation *


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   id: "CVE-2025-22224",
   lastModified: "2025-03-05T16:18:36.103",
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