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GHSA-8P72-RXH7-QV97

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-15 21:31 – Updated: 2025-07-15 21:31

Details

VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2025-41239 (GCVE-0-2025-41239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-15 18:35 – Updated: 2025-07-15 18:51

Summary

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

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https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

VMware

ESXi

Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3f-24784735 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2e-24789317 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3w-24784741 (custom)

VMware	Cloud Foundation	Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware	Workstation	Affected: 17.x , < 17.6.4 (custom)
VMware	Fusion	Affected: 13.x , < 13.6.4 (custom)
VMware	Telco Cloud Platform	Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Infrastructure	Affected: 3.x, 2.x
VMware	Tools	Affected: 13.x.x , < 13.0.1.0 (custom) Affected: 12.x.x, 11.x.x, , < 12.5.3 (custom)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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