CVE-2025-41237

VMCI integer-underflow vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Jul 15, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-underflow in VMCI (Virtual Machine Communication Interface) 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. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.3 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hvmware

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cloud FoundationVMware
  • 9.0.0.0, 5.x, 4.5.xAffected
vSphere FoundationVMware
  • 9.0.0.0Affected
ESXiVMware
  • 8.0 to before ESXi80U3f-24784735Affected
  • 8.0 to before ESXi80U2e-24789317Affected
  • 7.0 to before ESXi70U3w-24784741Affected
WorkstationVMware
  • 17.x to before 17.6.4Affected
FusionVMware
  • 13.x to before 13.6.4Affected
Telco Cloud PlatformVMware
  • 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xAffected
Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware
  • 3.x, 2.xAffected

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