Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.1 High

CVE-2025-41239

vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

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

VMware Tools

Default version status: unaffected

  • 13.x.x to < 13.0.1.0affected
  • 12.x.x, 11.x.x, to < 12.5.3affected

References