CVE-2025-41226

Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: May 20, 2025
Updated: Jun 24, 2025
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.8 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ESXiVMware	8.0 to before ESXi80U3se-24659227Affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3sv-24723868Affected
Cloud FoundationVMware	5.x, 4.5.xAffected
Telco Cloud PlatformVMware	5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xAffected
Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware	3.x, 2.xAffected

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717

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