VMware ESXi

CVE-2025-22225
HIGH 8.2CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2025-03-04

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.02 % · percentile 63 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hvmware
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware ESXiaffected 8.0 < ESXi80U3d-24585383 ; affected 8.0 < ESXi80U2d-24585300 ; affected 7.0 < ESXi70U3s-24585291
VMware Cloud Foundationaffected 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platformaffected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructureaffected 3.x, 2.x

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD