March 4, 2025 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2025-22226 — VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2025-03-04- Federal due date
2025-03-25- Vendor
- VMware
- Product
- ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
- EPSS
- 89.0th percentile (score 0.042, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
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- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22226
CISA short 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.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.