CVE-2025-41227

published 2025-05-20

CVE-2025-41227: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative…

Priority P4 22 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

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

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.

Affected

7 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	fusion	>= 13.x < 13.6.3	13.6.3
vmware	telco_cloud_infrastructure	—	—
vmware	telco_cloud_platform	—	—
vmware	workstation	>= 17.x < 17.6.3	17.6.3

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