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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2025-41238

PVSCSI heap-overflow vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap-overflow vulnerability in the PVSCSI (Paravirtualized SCSI) controller 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with configurations that are unsupported. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

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 < ESXi80U3f-24784735affected
  • 8.0 to < ESXi80U2e-24789317affected
  • 7.0 to < ESXi70U3w-24784741affected

VMware Cloud Foundation

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.x, 4.5.xaffected

VMware Workstation

Default version status: unaffected

  • 17.x to < 17.6.4affected

VMware Fusion

Default version status: unaffected

  • 13.x to < 13.6.4affected

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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