CVE-2025-41227 (GCVE-0-2025-41227)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-20 14:24
Modified
2025-06-24 07:13
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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| VMware | ESXi |
Version: 8.0 < ESXi80U3se-24659227 Version: 7.0 < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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