5.5Medium

CVE-2025-41227Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

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

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

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 Fusion 13.x – < 13.6.3
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware Workstation 17.x – < 17.6.3

References and patches