Summary
VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
- Vendor
- VMware
- Product
- ESXi and Workstation
- Added to KEV
- Mar 4, 2025
- Remediation due
- Mar 25, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-367
- EPSS
- 1.6% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References