CVE-2025-41226

published 2025-05-20

CVE-2025-41226: VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a…

Priority P4 25 medium 6.8 CVSS 3.1

AV A AC L PR L UI N S C C N I N A H

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	cloud_foundation	—	—
vmware	esxi	>= 7.0 < ESXi70U3sv-24723868	ESXi70U3sv-24723868
vmware	esxi	>= 8.0 < ESXi80U3se-24659227	ESXi80U3se-24659227
vmware	telco_cloud_infrastructure	—	—
vmware	telco_cloud_platform	—	—

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