CVE-2025-41239 (GCVE-0-2025-41239)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-15 18:35
Modified
2025-07-15 18:51
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Summary
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U3f-24784735
Version: 8.0   < ESXi80U2e-24789317
Version: 7.0   < ESXi70U3w-24784741
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