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Vulnerability · Published May 20, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

CVE-2025-41226Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Medium 6.8

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Cloud Foundation from VMware. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
VMware ESXi 8.0 – before ESXi80U3se-246592277.0 – before ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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