CVE-2025-41238 — Out-of-bounds Write in Vmware Esxi
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 15
Latest updateJul 17
Description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap-overflow vulnerability in the PVSCSI (Paravirtualized SCSI) controller that leads to an out of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with configurations that are unsupported. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.5 | Impact: 6.0