CVE-2025-41227

Summary

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
VMwareESXi8.0 < ESXi80U3se-24659227affected
VMwareESXi7.0 < ESXi70U3sv-24723868affected
VMwareCloud Foundation5.x, 4.5.xaffected
VMwareTelco Cloud Platform5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xaffected
VMwareTelco Cloud Infrastructure3.x, 2.xaffected
VMwareWorkstation17.x < 17.6.3affected
VMwareFusion13.x < 13.6.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References