FKIE_CVE-2025-22225

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-04 12:15 - Updated: 2025-10-30 19:52
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-22225US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware esxi 8.0
vmware cloud_foundation -
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.2
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.5
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 2.7
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure 3.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.5
vmware telco_cloud_platform 2.7
vmware telco_cloud_platform 3.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0
vmware telco_cloud_platform 4.0.1
vmware telco_cloud_platform 5.0
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