Information Disclosure Vulnerability in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
CVE-2025-22226

6MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

VMware

Vendor
CVE Published:
4 March 2025

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🦅 CISA Reported

What is CVE-2025-22226?

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion are affected by an information disclosure vulnerability caused by an out-of-bounds read in the HGFS component. A malicious user with administrative access to a virtual machine could exploit this vulnerability to extract sensitive memory data from the vmx process, potentially leading to unauthorized information leakage.

CISA has reported CVE-2025-22226

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed CVE-2025-22226 as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Affected Version(s)

ESXi 8.0

ESXi 8.0

ESXi 7.0

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • 🦅

    CISA Reported

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2025-22226 : Information Disclosure Vulnerability in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion