CVSS 3.1
8.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-22224
High (8.2) in VMware ESXi and Workstation. In CISA KEV since 2025-03-04. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2025-03-04, due 2025-03-25
- CWE
- CWE-367
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:cloud_foundation
- vmware:esxi
- vmware:telco_cloud_infrastructure
- vmware:telco_cloud_platform
- vmware:workstation