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

6MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
VMware
Status
Esxi
Vmware Workstation
Vmware Fusion
Vmware Cloud Foundation
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 March 2025

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🦅 CISA Reported

Summary

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 Reported

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 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

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-noti...

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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