CVE-2025-22224

VMware ESXi

CRITICAL 9.3CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2025-03-04

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.56 % · percentile 75 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-03-04 11:56 UTC
Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09 UTC
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Analyzed

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-7603
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-22224

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0177 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1e:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_2e:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3e:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3f:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3g:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3i:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3j:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3k:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3l:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3m:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3n:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3o:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3p:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3q:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_3r:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1c:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_1d:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2b:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:8.0:update_2c:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Affected products

Product	Versions
VMware · ESXi	affected 8.0 < ESXi80U3d-24585383 ; affected 8.0 < ESXi80U2d-24585300 ; affected 7.0 < ESXi70U3s-24585291
VMware · Workstation	affected 17.x < 17.6.3
VMware · VMware Cloud Foundation	affected 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware · Telco Cloud Platform	affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware · Telco Cloud Infrastructure	affected 3.x, 2.x

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD