Summary
VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with privileges within the VMX process to trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.
- Vendor
- VMware
- Product
- ESXi
- Added to KEV
- Mar 4, 2025
- Remediation due
- Mar 25, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-123
- EPSS
- 1.0% 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
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