CVE-2025-41239

vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Jul 15, 2025
Updated: Jul 15, 2025
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ESXiVMware	8.0 to before ESXi80U3f-24784735Affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U2e-24789317Affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3w-24784741Affected
Cloud FoundationVMware	5.x, 4.5.xAffected
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
ToolsVMware	13.x.x to before 13.0.1.0Affected 12.x.x, 11.x.x, to before 12.5.3Affected

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/35877

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