CVE-2025-41226

MEDIUM

VMware ESXi 7.0-8.0 - Denial of Service via Guest Operation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 31.7%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (5)
VMware/Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware/ESXi 7.0 - ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware/ESXi 8.0 - ESXi80U3se-24659227
VMware/Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x
VMware/Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026