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VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion: ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with administrative privileges to a virtual machine to leak memory from the vmx process. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-03-04.

Why this severity: CVSS 7.1 (CNA, v3.1); actively exploited (CISA KEV)

Started: Mar 4, 2025
Closed: Mar 4, 2025
CVE: CVE-2025-22226

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Updated Mar 4, 2025

Affected

See vendor advisory / CISA notes (versions not always listed in KEV feed)

Fixed in

See vendor advisory linked in sources

Timeline1

Mar 4, 2025
CISA added CVE-2025-22226 to the KEV catalog (due 2025-03-25).

Advisories3

Notes & caveats

Derived from CISA KEV JSON feed catalogVersion 2026.10.21. CVSS from the CVE record (cvelistV5). Exact affected/fixed version strings are not always in the KEV record; verify against the vendor advisory URL. startedAt uses dateAdded (exploitation may have begun earlier; many entries are older CVEs newly confirmed as exploited in 2025).

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