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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2025-41226 EUVD-2025-15831GHSA-jfjv-vw9w-9w8v

Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Published May 20, 2025 · Updated Jun 24, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

Description

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3se-24659227, 7.0 – < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 ESXi80U3se-24659227
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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