CVE-2025-41227 (GCVE-0-2025-41227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 14:24 – Updated: 2025-06-24 07:13
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3se-24659227 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 (custom)
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