⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-03-04. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-03-25. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..
CVE-2025-22226
Severity
6.0MEDIUM
EPSS
4.3%
top 11.09%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-03-04
Due 2025-03-25
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 4
KEV addedMar 4
KEV dueMar 25
Latest updateFeb 4
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.5 | Impact: 4.0
Affected Packages11 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-37f6-vjg7-8c6c: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS↗2025-03-04
CVEList▶
CVE-2025-22226: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS↗2025-03-04