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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2025-22224

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

VMware ESXi

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.0 to < ESXi80U3d-24585383affected
  • 8.0 to < ESXi80U2d-24585300affected
  • 7.0 to < ESXi70U3s-24585291affected

VMware Workstation

Default version status: unaffected

  • 17.x to < 17.6.3affected

VMware VMware Cloud Foundation

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.x, 4.5.xaffected

VMware Telco Cloud Platform

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xaffected

VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.x, 2.xaffected

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