CVE-2025-41227

MEDIUM

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (7)
VMware/Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware/ESXi 7.0 - ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware/ESXi 8.0 - ESXi80U3se-24659227
VMware/Fusion 13.x - 13.6.3
VMware/Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x
VMware/Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware/Workstation 17.x - 17.6.3
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026