CVE-2025-22225 (GCVE-0-2025-22225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-04 11:56 – Updated: 2025-10-21 22:55
VLAI? CISA
Summary
VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Arbitrary write vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware ESXi Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3d-24585383 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2d-24585300 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3s-24585291 (custom)
    n/a VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
    n/a VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
    n/a VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x, 2.x
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2025-03-04

Due date: 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.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22225

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