CVE-2025-22226

Summary

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aESXi8.0 < ESXi80U3d-24585383affected
n/aESXi8.0 < ESXi80U2d-24585300affected
n/aESXi7.0 < ESXi70U3s-24585291affected
n/aVMware Workstation17.x < 17.6.3affected
n/aVMware Fusion13.x < 13.6.3affected
n/aVMware Cloud Foundation5.x, 4.5.xaffected
n/aVMware Telco Cloud Platform5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xaffected
n/aVMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure3.x, 2.xaffected

Weaknesses

  • Information disclosure vulnerability

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: active
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

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