CVE-2025-22226
ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion
Published 4 Mar 2025 · updated 17 Jun 2026 · Analyzed
6.0 Medium · CVSS 3.1, NVD
Exploited in the wild
CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 4 Mar 2025, with a remediation deadline of 25 Mar 2025 for US federal agencies.
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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.