VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-22224

CVSS score9.3 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.56%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2025-03-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability

Vendor / product: VMware / ESXi and Workstation

Description

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability 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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-367
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-367

Primary references