CVE-2025-41226

Published May 20, 2025

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.
Source
security@vmware.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
2.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@vmware.com
CWE-400

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