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6.8Medium

CVE-2025-41226Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

VMware ESXi; VMware Cloud Foundation; VMware Telco Cloud Platform; VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Published: (1 year ago)

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.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-400

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware ESXi 8.0 – < ESXi80U3se-24659227, 7.0 – < ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x

References and patches

Recent CVEs in the same product — VMware ESXi / vCenter

2.7Low
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9.3Critical
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9.8Critical
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9.8Critical
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VMware vCenter contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the Syslog server. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.

62%EPSS
8.0High
CVE-2026-41724

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