VMware Security Flaws Exploited in the Wild—Broadcom Releases Urgent Patches

Broadcom has released security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2025-22224 CVSS score: 9.3 - A Time-of-Check...

Vulnerabilities fixed in VMware products

Broadcom has fixed vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi including Workstation and Fusion. The vulnerabilities include a TOCTOU vulnerability that allows a malicious person with local administrative privileges to execute code as the VMX process on the host via an out-of-bounds write. In addition, there ...

CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox...

CVE-2025-22226

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process...

CVE-2025-22224

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host...

CVE-2025-22224

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host...

CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox...

CVE-2025-22226

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process...

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-50302link is external Linux Kernel Use of Uninitialized Resource Vulnerability CVE-2025-22225link is external VMware ESXi Arbitrary Write Vulnerability...

CVE-2025-22226

CVE-2025-22226 affects VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion via an out-of-bounds read in HGFS, allowing a VM-guest with local admin rights to leak memory from the vmx host process (information disclosure). Connected sources corroborate three related VMware flaws (CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225) a...

CVE-2025-22226

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process...

CVE-2025-22226

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process...

CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox...

CVE-2025-22225

CVE-2025-22225 applies to VMware ESXi and involves an arbitrary write vulnerability where a malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process can trigger an arbitrary kernel write, leading to a sandbox escape. CVSS 3.1 base score 8.2 (HIGH) with LOCAL attack vector and HIGH impact on confide...

CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox...

CVE-2025-22224

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host...

CVE-2025-22224

VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU Time-of-Check Time-of-Use vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host...

CVE-2025-22224

CVE-2025-22224 refers to a TOCTOU race condition in VMware ESXi/Workstation that can cause an out-of-bounds write. IBM’s security bulletin ties this to Broadcom VMware ESXi vulnerabilities and details that a local admin within a VM can exploit the vulnerability to run code in the host’s VMX proce...

PT-2025-9653

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi VMware Workstation VMware Fusion VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Telco Cloud Platform VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure versions prior to 8.0 Description The software contains an information disclosure issue due to an out-of-bounds...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with privileges within the VMX process to trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox...