fkie_cve-2025-41239
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-07-15 19:15
Modified
2025-07-15 20:07
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/35877
Impacted products
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  "descriptions": [
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      "value": "VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets.\u00a0A 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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion y VMware Tools presentan una vulnerabilidad de divulgaci\u00f3n de informaci\u00f3n debido al uso de memoria no inicializada en vSockets. Un agente malicioso con privilegios de administrador local en una m\u00e1quina virtual podr\u00eda aprovechar este problema para filtrar memoria de los procesos que se comunican con vSockets."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-41239",
  "lastModified": "2025-07-15T20:07:28.023",
  "metrics": {
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          "availabilityImpact": "NONE",
          "baseScore": 7.1,
          "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
          "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
          "scope": "CHANGED",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
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  "published": "2025-07-15T19:15:22.557",
  "references": [
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