Denial of Service Vulnerability in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
CVE-2025-41227

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Vmware
Status
Esxi
Cloud Foundation
Telco Cloud Platform
Telco Cloud Infrastructure
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 May 2025

What is CVE-2025-41227?

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion are affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability resulting from specific guest options. An attacker with non-administrative privileges in a guest OS could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to memory exhaustion in the host process. This could disrupt service availability, allowing unauthorized users to impact system stability.

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Affected Version(s)

Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x

ESXi 8.0

ESXi 7.0

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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