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VMSA-2025-0004: VMware ESXi information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2025-22226)

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VMSA-2025-0004: VMware ESXi information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2025-22226)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/04/2025
Created
03/10/2025
Added
03/04/2025
Modified
03/27/2025

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-24514018
  • vmware-esxi700-upgrade-24585291
  • vmware-esxi701-upgrade-24585291
  • vmware-esxi702-upgrade-24585291
  • vmware-esxi703-upgrade-24585291
  • vmware-esxi800-upgrade-24585300
  • vmware-esxi801-upgrade-24585300
  • vmware-esxi802-upgrade-24585300
  • vmware-esxi803-upgrade-24585383

References

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