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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2025-41226

Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
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

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 < ESXi80U3se-24659227affected
  • 7.0 to < ESXi70U3sv-24723868affected

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

References