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This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Remediation Deadline: Mar 25, 2025

CVE-2025-22226

High
EPSS 6.8%CISA KEV
VMware/ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

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.

EPSS — Exploit Probability

6.8%

Higher than 91.2% of all CVEs

Required Action

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

Risk Assessment

ELEVATED
In CISA KEV

Details

Severity
High
EPSS
6.8%
CISA KEV
Yes
Ransomware
Unknown
Articles
0

Timeline

Published

Mar 4, 2025

Added to KEV

Mar 4, 2025

Remediation Due

Mar 25, 2025

Affected Product

VMware

ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

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