Description
VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367CWE-367
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- VMWARE
- Published
- 3/4/2025
- Last Modified
- 10/30/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
vmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : esxivmware : cloud_foundationvmware : telco_cloud_infrastructurevmware : telco_cloud_infrastructurevmware : telco_cloud_infrastructurevmware : telco_cloud_infrastructurevmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : telco_cloud_platformvmware : workstation
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