Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Mar 4, 2025· Updated Feb 26, 2026

CVE-2025-22224

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.

Affected products

VMware/Esxiv5
Range: 8.0
VMware/Workstationv5
Range: 17.x
VMware/Telco Cloud Infrastructurev5
Range: 3.x, 2.x
VMware/Telco Cloud Platformv5
Range: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware/VMware Cloud Foundationv5
Range: 5.x, 4.5.x

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390mitre

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