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High · 7.1 CVE-2025-41239 EUVD-2025-21539GHSA-8p72-rxh7-qv97

vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability

Published Jul 15, 2025 · Updated Jul 15, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3f-24784735, 8.0 – < ESXi80U2e-24789317, 7.0 – < ESXi70U3w-24784741 ESXi80U3f-24784735
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x —
VMware Workstation 17.x – < 17.6.4 17.6.4
VMware Fusion 13.x – < 13.6.4 13.6.4
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x —
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x —
VMware Tools 13.x.x – < 13.0.1.0, 12.x.x, 11.x.x, – < 12.5.3 13.0.1.0

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