CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Remediation Deadline: Mar 25, 2025
High
CISA KEVCVE-2025-22224
VMware—ESXi and Workstation
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.
Required Action
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22224
Vulnerability Overview
- Severity
- High
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- Ransomware
- Unknown
- Published
- Mar 4, 2025
- KEV Added
- Mar 4, 2025
- Due Date
- Mar 25, 2025
- Related Articles
- 0
Vendor
VMware
ESXi and Workstation