CVE-2025-22224

UNKNOWNKnown Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22224

Remediation deadline: March 25, 2025

Description

VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Timeline

Published:March 4th, 2025 12:00 AM

Last modified:March 4th, 2025 12:00 AM

Added to KEV:March 4th, 2025

CVSS Scoring

No CVSS v3 score available

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

VMware

Products

ESXi and Workstation

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

No references available.

Source: CISA KEV + NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute