CVE-2025-22225

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Mar 4, 2025
Updated: Aug 4, 2026
Reserved: Jan 2, 2025

Description

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-123 Write-what-where Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware ESXin/a	8.0 to before ESXi80U3d-24585383Affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U2d-24585300Affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3s-24585291Affected
VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	5.x, 4.5.xAffected
VMware Telco Cloud Platformn/a	5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xAffected
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructuren/a	3.x, 2.xAffected

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