CVE-2025-41226
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.8 Medium
- Status
- Deferred - security@vmware.com
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2025-06-24
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
- Cloud Foundation (Vmware)
- Esxi (Vmware)
- Telco Cloud Infrastructure (Vmware)
- Telco Cloud Platform (Vmware)
References
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717
