CVE-2025-22224 - VMware ESXi and Workstation
AI Vulnerability ContextVMware 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.
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CISA KEVCRITICAL
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-22224
- Vendor/project
- VMware
- Product
- ESXi and Workstation
- Vulnerability name
- VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability
- Date added
- 2025-03-04
- Due date
- 2025-03-25
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CVSS v3
- 9.3
CWE-367
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NVD CVE pagehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22224CVE API docshttps://nvd.nist.gov/developers/vulnerabilitiesData feedshttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/data-feedsCataloghttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalogData repositoryhttps://github.com/cisagov/kev-datasecurity@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-22224