CVE-2025-41226 (GCVE-0-2025-41226)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-20 14:24
Modified
2025-06-24 07:12
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U3se-24659227
Version: 7.0   < ESXi70U3sv-24723868
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