CVE-2025-22226
HIGH KEV RANSOMWAREVMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion - Info Disclosure
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2025-22226 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 4, 2025, with confirmed use in ransomware campaigns.
Description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390
US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-22226
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0423
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CISA KEV
2025-03-04
VulnCheck KEV
2025-03-04
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2025-7605
Ransomware Use
Confirmed
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (9)
vmware/cloud_foundation
vmware/esxi
7.0 (29 CPE variants)
vmware/esxi
8.0 (14 CPE variants)
vmware/fusion
13.0.0 - 13.6.3
vmware/telco_cloud_infrastructure
2.2
vmware/telco_cloud_infrastructure
2.5
vmware/telco_cloud_infrastructure
2.7
vmware/telco_cloud_infrastructure
3.0
vmware/telco_cloud_platform
2.0
Published
Mar 04, 2025
KEV Added
Mar 04, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026