CVE-2025-22224

March 5, 2025, 4:18 p.m.

9.3
Critical

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Vmware
  • Esxi
  • Cloud Foundation
  • Telco Cloud Infrastructure
  • Telco Cloud Platform
  • Workstation
  • 7.0, 8.0
  • -
  • 2.2, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0
  • 2.0, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-367
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
o vmware esxi 7.0 - / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 beta / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1a / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1b / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1d / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_1e / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_2 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_2a / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_2c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_2d / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_2e / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3d / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3e / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3f / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3g / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3i / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3j / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3k / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3l / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3m / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3n / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3o / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3p / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3q / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 7.0 update_3r / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 - / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 a / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 b / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_1 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_1a / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_1c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_1d / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_2 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_2b / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_2c / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_3 / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_3b / / / / / /
o vmware esxi 8.0 update_3c / / / / / /
a vmware cloud_foundation - / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.2 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.5 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.7 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 3.0 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.0 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.5 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.7 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 3.0 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0.1 / / / / / / /
a vmware telco_cloud_platform 5.0 / / / / / / /
a vmware workstation / / / / / / / /

CVSS Score

9.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: March 4, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
Last Modified: March 5, 2025, 4:18 p.m.

Status : Analyzed

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@vmware.com

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