CVE detail

CVE-2025-22224 — VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability

Published 2025-03-04 · Modified 2025-03-04 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0156

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

73.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2025-03-25

Description

VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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