VULNERABILITY

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2025-0004) (CVE-2025-22224)

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VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2025-0004) (CVE-2025-22224)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/04/2025
Created
03/10/2025
Added
03/04/2025
Modified
03/17/2025

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.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-workstation-upgrade-17_6_3

References

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