CVE-2025-22226
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CVE-2025-22226 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6/10 on the CVSS scale. 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 has confirmed active exploitation in the wild. EPSS estimates a 1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Exploitation Status
This vulnerability is listed in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming active exploitation in the wild. Federal agencies must remediate by .
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Esxi | 7.0 |
| Vmware | Esxi | 8.0 |
| Vmware | Cloud Foundation | All versions |
| Vmware | Fusion | >= 13.0.0, < 13.6.3 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | 2.2 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | 2.5 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | 2.7 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | 3.0 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 2.0 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 2.5 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 2.7 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 3.0 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 4.0 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 4.0.1 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | 5.0 |
| Vmware | Workstation | >= 17.0, < 17.6.3 |
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