CVE-2025-41227
Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM 5.5
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- vmware
- NVD status
- Deferred
Description
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to certain guest options. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges within a guest operating system may be able to exploit this issue by exhausting memory of the host process leading to a denial-of-service condition.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | vmware |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-15832
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-41227
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0430 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| VMware · ESXi | affected 8.0 < ESXi80U3se-24659227 ; affected 7.0 < ESXi70U3sv-24723868 |
| VMware · Cloud Foundation | affected 5.x, 4.5.x |
| VMware · Telco Cloud Platform | affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x |
| VMware · Telco Cloud Infrastructure | affected 3.x, 2.x |
| VMware · Workstation | affected 17.x < 17.6.3 |
| VMware · Fusion | affected 13.x < 13.6.3 |
References
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |