CRITICALCVSS 9.3Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2025-03-04Vulnerability

CVE-2025-22224

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.

Properties

Euvd product
Workstation, ESXi, Telco Cloud Infrastructure, VMware Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform
Vulnerability name
VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability
First seen
2026-02-26T19:09:47+00:00
Cvss score
9.3
Epss score
0.01561
Last seen
2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
Due date
2025-03-25
Euvd assigner
vmware
Retrieved at
2026-10-21T01:24:47+00:00
Exploited euvd since
2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
Src batch id
epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
Source url
https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
Date added
2025-03-04
Score
9.3
Euvd base score version
3.1
Fetched at
2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
Euvd vendor
VMware
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Euvd base score
9.3

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