Vulnerability · Published May 20, 2025 · Assigned by vmware
CVE-2025-41227Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Medium 5.5
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 6% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 94.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| VMware | Workstation | 17.x – before 17.6.3 |
| VMware | Fusion | 13.x – before 13.6.3 |
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H