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Critical · 9.3 Known exploited CVE-2025-22224 EUVD-2025-7603GHSA-j652-46fv-w96g

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious a…

Published Mar 4, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3d-24585383, 8.0 – < ESXi80U2d-24585300, 7.0 – < ESXi70U3s-24585291 ESXi80U3d-24585383
VMware Workstation 17.x – < 17.6.3 17.6.3
VMware VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x —
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x —
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x —

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