CVE-2025-22226

Product

VMware / ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

Vulnerability

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Added to KEV

Mar 4, 2025

Remediate by

Mar 25, 2025

Known ransomware use

No

Summary description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with administrative privileges to a virtual machine to leak memory from the vmx process.

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.

Notes

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22226